The Dermoscopic “Pluck Out Sign” for Beard Trichotillomania

Burnt Matchstick Sign - A new Trichoscopic finding in Trichotillomania

To Beard or Not to Beard? Bacterial Shedding Among Surgeons.

Beards in the operating room are controversial because of their potential to retain and transmit pathogenic organisms. Many bearded orthopedic surgeons choose to wear nonsterile hoods in addition to surgical masks to decrease contamination of the operative field. The goal of this study was to determine whether nonsterile surgical hoods reduce the risk of bacterial shedding posed by beards. Bear...

The Argument of the Beard

The essence of the argument of the beard (so-called by some logic textbooks) is the tactic used by a respondent to reply to a proponent, "The criterion you used to define a key term in your argument is vague, therefore your use of this term in your argument is illegitimate, and your argument is refuted." This familiar kind of argument tactic is similar to the much more famous heap (sorites) arg...

Quetiapine for the treatment of trichotillomania.

treatment, because it overlapped with work time. She was started on fluoxetine 20 mg per day, later titrated up to 40 mg per day. Hair pulling and anxiety symptoms improved, but activation side effects occurred, mainly insomnia and weight loss. After 4 weeks of fluoxetine 40 mg per day, quetiapine was introduced, beginning with 25 mg bedtime, titrated up to 100 mg in a week. Both fluoxetine act...

Corkscrew hair: a new dermoscopic sign for diagnosis of tinea capitis in black children.

T inea capitis (TC) is the most common dermatophytosis of childhood and has an increasing incidence worldwide. The presence of Microsporum canis, the most prevalent causative organism in Europe, is usually easy to diagnose: it classically presents with a patch of alopecia, a scaly plaque, and a positive finding under Wood lamp examination. An increase in anthropophilic organisms is widely repor...