Alopecia areata (overview) Bilder
Zum Fachartikel Alopecia areata (overview)
alopecia areata. roundish, centrifugally and medially spreading, smooth, skin-coloured, hairless areas with preserved follicles. total foci from single foci formed by confluence. follicular structures clearly detectable.

Alopecia areata. roundish, centrifugally and medially spreading, smooth, hairless area with preserved follicles. in the active marginal area hairs can still be easily epilated.


Alopecia areata: Large hairless area with preserved follicle structure.

Alopecia areata: Beginningnew hair growth of a hairless area in an 8-year-old girl which has existed for a few months.

Alopecia areata. roundish, centrifugally and medially spreading, smooth, hairless areas with preserved follicles. in the active marginal area hair can be pulled out in tufts. under internal steroid treatment with methylprednisolone for 4 weeks the hair loss stopped and re-growth in places occurred.



Alopecia areata: Still relapsing-active alopecia areata: Marginal area, cadaverized hair and exclamation mark-like hair, as a sign of the still existing progression of the process.

Alopecia areata: marginal area of an apparently no longer progressive alopecia areata. follicular structures detectable. no cadaverized hair stumps detectable.

Alopecia areata: Typical clinical finding of an alopecia areata with concomitant circumscribed scleroderma.

Alopecia areata: Ophiasis type with an arched limitation of the hair loss line in the neck (rather uncertain prognosis).

Alopecia areata totalis: Complete loss of hair on the capillitium, eyebrows and eyelashes, encircling an area of skin where the hair follicles that have been preserved are clearly visible.

Alopecia areata (Grade 2-3): extensive loss of hair in the capillitium. at higher magnification, the preserved (hairless) follicles can be seen. preserved hair rings partly mark the grown alopecia foci. note individual re-grown pigment-free hairs

Alopecia areata (Grade 2-3): extensive loss of hair in the capillitium. at higher magnification, the preserved (hairless) follicles can be seen. preserved hair rings mark the grown alopecia foci at this point. note individual re-grown pigment-free hairs

Alopecia areata totalis: complete hair loss except for a few individual hairs; with greater enlargement, the preserved (hairless) follicles can be seen




Alopecia areata. 6 months of persistent focal alopecia of the right eyebrow in a 40-year-old patient with alopecia areata, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and atopic eczema.


Alopecia areata: Complete loss of eyebrows and eyelashes.

Alopecia areata of the eyelashes: since 2 years recurrent loss of the eyelashes (here on the upper eyelid detectable), which grow back after a few months, but then fall out again.

Alopecia areata: Sharply defined, roundish, hairless area in the beard area.






Diffuse whitish keratinization disorders of both thumbnails in an 8-year-old girl of Turkish origin with alopeciaareata of unknown etiology.

Alopecia areata: Diffuse, rough keratinization disorders of the nails (trachyonychia) in Alopecia areata totalis of unknown etiology.

Diffuse, whitish keratinization disorders of the toenails (especially the right big toe nail) in an 8-year-old girl of Turkish origin with alopeciaareata of unknown etiology.

Alopecia areata: Acute bullous contact allergic dermatitis after multiple treatment of the hairless areas with DNCB.



