Occipital alopecia

Occipital alopecia after cardiac surgery.

To the Editor: Since 1991, an autologous blood programme for elective surgery has been available here. l Preliminary experience showed that 14% of 66 aatologous donors undergoing cardiac bypass surgery had received no allogeneic red cells but had received allogeneic products other than red cells. 2 It was suggested that, if autologous blood programmes were to have an impact on patient exposure ...

Two cases of linear alopecia on the occipital scalp.

Alopecia of a scalp shows various shapes and extents of hair loss, from a small round patch to polymorphous patches or total global alopecia. But alopecia of a linear shape is very rare. Only a few such cases have currently been reported in the medical literature. We recently had the chance to observe and treat two cases of linear alopecia that developed on the occipital scalp. The lesions them...

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Neonatal Occipital Alopecia: A Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND For many years, the etiology of neonatal occipital alopecia (NOA) has been thought to be friction. It is recently clear that NOA is related to the physiological hair shedding. OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with NOA. METHODS Medical records of 240 postpartum patients who had been delivered between January 2006 and June 2007 at our institutio...

Occipital Dysplasia in Pomeranian Dog

Case Description- Three female Pomeranian dogs with mean age about 1-year-old and history of seizure and sudden shock were referred to Small Animal Hospital of University of Tehran. Clinical Finding- Occipital Dysplasia was diagnosed by radiographic findings in rostrodorsal- coudoventral oblique view in all cases. Treatment and Outcome- These dogs recovered by 14 days administration of Glucoc...

Alopecia.