First described by Kossard in 1994, frontal fibrosing alopecia is a type of cicatricial alopecia that is clinically characterized by progressive and symmetrical recession of the frontotemporal hairline. It is accompanied by partial alopecia of the eyebrows in most cases and loss of body hair in a variable number of patients. It is more frequent in postmenopausal women, although there have been ...

Cicatricial alopecia is an enigmatic group of hair disorders linked by the potential permanent loss of scalp hair follicles in involved areas. Progress in our understanding and treatment of these disorders has been stymied by the lack of clear diagnostic criteria for the current terms used to describe the various hair loss entities. Since all of these conditions evolve as the hair is destroyed ...

Purpose: This case series aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a composite reconstructive surgery combining scalp soft tissue expansion (SSTE) with follicular unit extraction (FUE) in the treatment of post-burn cicatricial alopecia. Methods: From June 2006 to July 2010, 48 patients (32 males and 16 females, mean age 23 years, including 3 pediatric patients) with postburn cicatricial alopecia who w...

Follicular unit extraction method of hair transplantation for androgenetic alopecia is quite common, but as far cicatricial concerned there still exists a lacuna. In this article, we have presented various factors that surgically determine the treatment outcome in alopecia. Thus, advanced end-stage alopecia, it now possible to give good results patient with transplantation.

K E Y W O R D S cicatricial alopecia, frontal fibrosing alopecia, hair, hair transplantation, scarring alopecia Mediteknia Hair Transplant Clinic and Medical Pathology Group, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, The University of Manchester, Salford, Manchester, UK Department of Pathology, Hospital General Universitario ...

Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a kind of progressive and frequently irreversible cicatricial alopecia marked by a lichenoid infiltrate in histology. Since its first description, in 1994, in Australia, some cases have been documented all over the world. The article reports, for the second time in the medical literature, a Brazilian case and reviews the main aspects of this dermatosis.

keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans (kfsd) represents a rare, probably x-linked recessive genodermatosis, characterized by keratosis pilaris of face, trunk and extremities, followed by atrophy, cicatricial alopecia of the scalp, eyebrows and eyelashes, photophobia and corneal abnormalities. we report a rare case of kfsd and review the literature.