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Alopecia, androgenetic: typical infestation pattern in androgenetic alopecia.

Alopecia androgenetica in the female. classic, initial androgenetic alopecia of the female pattern, with preserved frontal hair and emphasis on the high-parietal hair areas in a 16-year-old female patient. secondary findings are generalized hypertrichosis since childhood. the patient's sister is also affected, previous generations are all free of symptoms.


Alopecia postmenopausal, frontal, fibrosing: uniform receding of the frontal and temporal hairline. moderately pronounced ulerythema ophryogenes. keratosis follicularis on the extensor extremities.

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

Trichotillomania; for 2 years in a 9-year-old boy a circumscribed, flat alopecia of varying extent; due to incomplete and frequent pulling out of the hairs single tufts of hairs have stopped again and again.

Trichotillomania: Bird Bobby

Pseudopélade: Irregularly limited, hairless area. follicular structure is completely absent in the hairless area. thus a "scarred" final state of a previously expired inflammation leading to scarring is present. in congenital hairlessness the healing state of an "aplasia cutis congenita circumscripta" is present (see there).

Alopecia, scarring alopecia in a 13-year-old female patient with known lupus erythematosus without systemic involvement.

Alopecia: scarring alopecia with folliculitis decalvans that has existed for years; typical are the tufts of hairs that wick through the alopecia plate.

Alopecia: Ulerythema ophryogenes with loss of the lateral parts of the eyebrows.

