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Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: A Review [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021
Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a scarring alopecia, the prevalence of which is increasing worldwide since its first description in 1994. The reason for this emerging epidemic may be a higher exposure to an unknown trigger, although its aethiology and pathogenesis still remain enigmatic.
Ml Porriño-Bustamante, Salvador Arias-Santiago   +1 more
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Frontal fibrosing alopecia

Clinics in Dermatology, 2021
Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a patterned primary cicatricial alopecia that was first described in 1994. Once rare, the incidence of FFA has increased dramatically, representing the current most common cause of cicatricial alopecia worldwide.
Kerkemeyer, KLS, Eisman, S, Bhoyrul, B, Pinczewski, J, Sinclair, RD   +4 more
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Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia and Sunscreen Use: A Cross-sectional Study of Actinic Damage [PDF]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2022
Patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia report higher rates of sunscreen use than control subjects. However, it is not known whether the higher use of sunscreens is a cause or a consequence of the alopecia.
María Librada Porriño-Bustamante, Trinidad Montero-Vílchez, Fernando Javier Pinedo-Moraleda, Ángel Fernández-Flores, María Antonia Fernández-Pugnaire, Salvador Arias-Santiago   +5 more
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Coexistence of chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus and frontal fibrosing alopecia [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2018
: Lupus erythemathosus is a chronic, relapsing disease with acute, subacute, and chronic lesions. Effluvium telogen occurs in the setting of systemic activity of the disease, and cicatricial alopecia results from discoid lesionsin on the scalp.
Luciana Lima do Nascimento, Milvia Maria Simões e Silva Enokihara, Mônica Ribeiro de Azevedo Vasconcellos   +2 more
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Two different trichoscopic patterns of mid-frontal scalp in patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia and clinical features of androgenetic alopecia

Przegląd Dermatologiczny, 2017
Introduction . Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a primary lymphocytic cicatricial alopecia with progressive frontotemporal hairline recession. In some cases, hair loss in the mid-frontal scalp, similar to female pattern hair loss, may be observed ...
Adriana Rakowska, Anna Waśkiel, Mariusz Sikora, Małgorzata Olszewska, Lidia Rudnicka   +4 more
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Protein profiling of forehead epidermal corneocytes distinguishes frontal fibrosing from androgenetic alopecia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
Protein profiling offers an effective approach to characterizing how far epidermis departs from normal in disease states. The present pilot investigation tested the hypothesis that protein expression in epidermal corneocytes is perturbed in the forehead ...
Noreen Karim, Paradi Mirmirani, Blythe P Durbin-Johnson, David M Rocke, Michelle Salemi, Brett S Phinney, Robert H Rice   +6 more
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Alopecia Areata Mimicking Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia [PDF]

Cureus, 2021
Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune nonscarring alopecia that has variable clinical patterns, most commonly patchy disease. We report a case of AA with unusual involvement of the frontal hairline, mimicking frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA), a form of scarring alopecia. Dermoscopic findings and response to treatment favored a diagnosis of AA.
de Carvalho, LT, Izhakoff, N, Meah, N, Sinclair, R   +3 more
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Alopecia frontal fibrosante: relato de seis casos Frontal fibrosing alopecia: report of six cases

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2007
Alopecia frontal fibrosante é forma progressiva de alopecia cicatricial. Os casos iniciais foram relatados a partir 1994, na Austrália, em pacientes do sexo feminino pós-menopausa.
Fabiane Mulinari-Brenner, Fernanda Manfron Rosas, Maurício Shigueru Sato, Betina Werner   +3 more
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Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: An Update [PDF]

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
In this review, we discuss recent developments in our understanding of frontal fibrosing alopecia, a disease that has become increasingly common and widespread since its first description in 1994. An inherited predisposition to frontal fibrosing alopecia, previously suspected from the occurrence of familial cases, has been confirmed through genetic ...
Andrew G. Messenger, Leila Asfour, Matthew Harries   +2 more
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A Cross-sectional Study of Rosacea and Risk Factors in Women with Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019
Frontal fibrosing alopecia has been related to some autoimmune diseases, but the association with rosacea is not clear. The objective of this study was to analyse the prevalence of rosacea in a group of patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia.
María Librada Porriño-Bustamante, María Antonia Fernández-Pugnaire, Salvador Arias-Santiago   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources