Scalp hyperkeratosis is common in childhood and adolescence. Diagnosis is affected by age, race, and history of infectious exposure, and associated symptoms including atopic features, alopecia, inflammatory nodules, presence and type of cutaneous lesions outside of the scalp, and nuchal lymphadenopathy. Tinea capitis is common in children with skin of color, especially black and Hispanic childr...

Scalp-recorded focal EEG seizure patterns are usually expressed as rhythmic metamorphic evolving patterns (with or without epileptiform morphology) that progress through two or more ictal phases into a postictal change. Such patterns are almost invariably seen in temporal complex partial seizures but less often detected in frontal complex partial seizures and least of all in simple partial seiz...

[Purpose] A scalp massage was conducted on female office workers divided into a 15 minute group and 25 minute group and its effect on stress hormone, blood pressure and heart rate was analyzed in order to provide a theoretical rationale to apply scalp massage as stress therapy. [Subjects and Methods] A scalp massage was applied to 34 female office workers twice a week for a total of 10 weeks; t...

Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent, and relatively common inflammatory dermatologic condition, which demonstrates various clinical manifestations including hair loss. It was once believed that alopecia was not a presentation of scalp psoriasis, but it is now widely accepted that psoriatic alopecia exists. Although the majority of patients get hair regrowth, it can potentially lead to permanent h...

Extensive scalp defect with exposed bone is best reconstructed with flaps. Majority of these wounds are now routinely reconstructed with free flaps in many centers. Free flaps however require lengthy operative time and may not be available to all patients, where possible less extensive options should thus be encouraged. A sixty-eight-year-old patient presented to us with a Marjolin's ulcer on t...

Background: Alopecia areata has a wide range of different clinical presentations. It may present as localized or diffuse hair thinness without hair loss, a small patch of hair loss or may progress to alopecia totalis and universalis. Objectives: Determination of clinical patterns of alopecia areata in Kerman province and to compare the results with other studies in other countries. Patients and...

After the failure of a composite graft in patient with complete auricle amputation, we successfully reconstructed severely gashed using two-stage cartilage preservation surgery. We removed skin amputee and buried under postauricular scalp. The end right ear was sutured to A separation surgery performed on 14th day after burying removing suture, along scalp carefully separated from donor site lo...

Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp is a rare inflammatory disorder unknown etiology. It clinically characterized by formation painful suppurative chronic nodules and abscesses, which are connected fistulae that, although they can be cured, as consequence leave patients with irreversible alopecia. Currently, there only few cases reported in literature. Here we present case 45-year-old patient di...


 Introduction
 Cylindroma is an appendageal tumour of the skin that usually benign in nature, arising from pluripotent stem cells follicular-sebaceous-apocrine unit. Usually, multiple cylindromas are a component Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (BSS) or occur only as lesions familial cylindromatosis (FC). The site occurrence tumours this condition scalp.
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Topical minoxidil, the only approved treatment for female pattern hair loss (FPHL), has been associated with scalp allergic contact dermatitis (ACD). We report the case of 2 female patients who developed ACD from minoxidil solution with severe telogen effluvium and psoriasiform scalp dermatitis. Scalp dermoscopy was useful to identify the psoriasiform vascular pattern, whereas patch testing mad...