Scarring alopecia is relatively uncommon in infants and children and rarely discussed in the paediatric literature. It does not appear to have been previously documented as a consequence of compromised oxygenation and blood supply in the neonatal population or as a complication of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment. During a six month period, we observed five patients who pres...

Background: Alopecia areata is a common disorder of hair occurring on any hair bearing site of the body and having a great psychosocial impact. Aims: To assess the demographic pattern, clinical aspects, associations and therapeutic response of AA in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Materials & methods: All patients diagnosed with alopecia areata were included in the study. With due consent, t...

We performed clinical trials to evaluate the therapeutic effects of Foltene in patients of the several types of hair fallings. Thirty patients with male pattern baldness, alopecia areata and seborrheic alopecia were included in this study. Foltene was applied every other day for 40 days, and followed by maintenance therapy of twice application a week. The duration of whole therapy was 6 months....

Androgenetic alopecia is the most common hair loss disorder, affecting both men and women. Initial signs of androgenetic alopecia usually develop during teenage years leading to progressive hair loss with a pattern distribution. Moreover, its frequency increases with age and affects up to 80 % Caucasian men and 42 % of women. Patients diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia may undergo significant...

the goal of this study was to compare depression and quality of life in three auto immune diseases: psoriasis, vitiligo, and alopecia areata. from january 2009 until january 2010, 300 patients (100 with alopecia areata, 100 with psoriasis and 100 with vitiligo) who were randomly selected (by simple random selection) from outpatient clinic of razi hospital (center of skin diseases of tehran univ...

BACKGROUND Hirschsprung's disease is one of the commonest causes of intestinal obstruction in neonates because of gut motility disorder. It is characterized as a complex genetic heterogenous disorder with variable inheritance. Hirschsprung's disease occurs as an isolated phenotype in majority (70 %) of cases. In other cases it may be associated with syndromes (such as Down's syndrome, Waardenbu...

in number (16 of 22) of infants in the dutch laboratory rabbit breeding colony, in aged 45-65 days old, hair loss (alopecia) seen at the top of the head and around a week after the hair fall, was created in a state of complete alopecia. for determination of the cause of hair loss, after the observation and palpation the alopecic area, there have not been any swelling, abscesses, tumors. in s...

Objective: To compare the histopathological findings in horizontal and vertical sections in cases of alopecia with their clinicopathological correlation. Materials and methods: A study of 50 patients was conducted to study the histopathological findings in horizontal and vertical sections in cases of alopecia along with their clinicopathological correlation. Results: In our study, major causes ...

BACKGROUND Clinicians are searching for new methods to diagnose and predict the course of androgenetic alopecia noninvasively. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to evaluate trichoscopic findings and their relations with disease severity in androgenetic alopecia. METHODS The videodermatoscopic findings of 143 female and 63 male patients with androgenetic alopecia were compared with each other, with those...

BACKGROUND Androgenetic alopecia is characterized by a defined area of progressive nonscarring alopecia. The clinical and histological findings in 15 women and 4 men with progressive scarring alopecia in a pattern distribution were studied. The results were evaluated and compared with clinicopathologic entities that feature scarring of the central scalp area, specifically, lichen planopilaris, ...