Lupus erythematodes chronicus discoides: older, not (no longer) active, "discoid" lupus focus, healed under atrophy of skin and subcutis (complete destruction of the hair follicles, surface parchment-like smooth - see inlet).
Folliculitis decalvans. 4 years of persistent, chronically active, progressive, red, follicle-related, rough, partly scaly, partly solitary, partly confluent papules on the capillitium of a 46-year-old man. In between, skin-coloured or white, hard, smooth, scarred plaques appear on which the follicles are completely missing.
Microspore (Tina capitis caused by Microsporun canis) : Scaling and breaking off hair in the parting area in a 6-year-old girl. no itching. fungal culture: masses of Microsporum canis.
Alopecia marginalis. 6 months of persistent, progressive hair loss at the traction points for the fixation of composite parts of a hair replacement woven in for 8 years in a 37-year-old female patient. In the picture a skin-coloured scar plate is centrally impressing, which has existed since birth (Pat. had as a twin almost grown together with his sibling).
Tinea capitis superficialis: non-inflammatory, blurred, alopecic foci in the parting area in a 6-year-old girl. fine whitish scales and breaking off hairs. no itching. fungal culture: masses of Microsporum canis.
Alopecia postmenopausal, frontal, fibrosing: uniform receding of the frontal and temporal hairline. moderately pronounced ulerythema ophryogenes. keratosis follicularis on the extensor extremities.
Alopecia neurodermitica. general view: Chronic stationary, temporally to occipitally localized, large-area, diffuse hair loss in a 53-year-old female patient with atopic eczema since childhood. the scalp is partly diffusely reddened, the follicles are preserved. isolated scratch artefacts are visible. the patient also suffers from bronchial asthma and seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivalis.
Folliculitis decalvans: Alopecia like a footstep with fresh and older scars. Left picture: Inflammatory area with yellowish crusts. The process has been going on for several years, in attacks which last several months. Oral antibiotics improve the severity of the attacks.
Alopecia, post-menopausal, frontal, fibrosing: typical follicular inflammatory pattern (see frontal hairline). No symptoms. This results in a backward development of the forehead-hairline.
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