Pili Annulati with Multiple Fragile Hairs
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Corresponding author: Byung Cheol Park, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Dankook University, 119 Dandae-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan 31116, Korea. Tel: 82-41-550-6485, Fax: 82-41-552-7541, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © The Korean Dermatological Association and The Korean Society for Investigative Dermatology Fig. 1. (A) Regular alternating bright bands on hair shafts. (B) Multiple white-gray spots appearing like grains of sand exist on the hair shaft. (C) Alternating dark and bright bands with intermittent whit spots on the hair shaft appeared on the dermoscopic examination. (D) The air-filled dark spaces occupied 40%∼80% of the hair shaft on inverted microscopy. https://doi.org/10.5021/ad.2017.29.2.254
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