Alopesia areata (AA) merupakan penyakit autoimun yang ditandai dengan alopesia non-sikatrisial. Kondisi ini dermatosis umum ditemui pada anak. Gambaran klinisnya berupa non-sikatrisial fokal, perlu dibedakan dari kondisi dapatan serupa lainnya, terutama sering terjadi Kami melaporkan 5 kasus AA anak berusia di bawah 18 tahun. Diagnosis berdasarkan pemeriksaan klinis dan penunjang. Pemahaman kar...

Alopecia areata (AA) is a non-scarring, inflammatory, hair loss disease that can affect men, women and children. The factors that activate the onset of alopecia areata and the mechanisms of its development are not fully understood.The association of alopecia areata and infectious foci of dental origin may be explained by the autoimmune nature of the disorder. This article reviews this associati...

BACKGROUND Permanent alopecia after bone marrow transplantation is rare, but more and more cases have been described, typically involving high doses of chemotherapeutic agents used in the conditioning regimen for the transplant. Busulfan, classically described in cases of irreversible alopecia, remains associated in recent cases. The pathogenesis involved in hair loss is not clear and there are...

Alopecia areata (AA) is a recurrent, non-scarring type of hair loss affecting the hair follicles and sometimes the nails. Current evidence indicates that hair follicle inflammation in alopecia areata is caused by a T-cell mediated autoimmune mechanism occurring in genetically predisposed individuals. Environmental factors like infections, diet, vaccination and stress may be responsible for trig...

Psoriasis is a relatively frequent inflammatory dermatosis. Scarring alopecia due to scalp psoriasis was first reported in 1972, but few reports have been written since then, showing that this is a very rare complication of a common disorder. We report a young Brazilian woman with longstanding scalp psoriasis, which progressed to scaring alopecia.

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Hair loss is not a common feature of secondary syphilis. There are two types of syphilitic alopecia: “symptomatic” type where hair loss is associated with other symptoms of secondary syphilis, and “essential” alopecia that is either patchy (“moth-eaten” type), diffuse pattern with a generalized thinning of the scalp hair, or a combination of both without any other mucocutaneous signs of syphili...