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| Frontal fibrosing alopecia | |
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| Other names | FFA[1] |
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| Specialty | Dermatology |
Frontal fibrosing alopecia is the frontotemporal hairline recession and eyebrow loss in postmenopausal women that is associated with perifollicular erythema, especially along the hairline.[2][3]: 648 It is considered to be a clinical variant of lichen planopilaris.[4]
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Wang, Monga I, Sallee BN, Chen JC, Abdelaziz AR, Perez-Lorenzo R, Bordone LA, Christiano AM (Jul 2022). "Primary cicatricial alopecias are characterized by dysregulation of shared gene expression pathways". PNAS Nexus. 1 (3): pgac111. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac111. PMC 9308563. PMID 35899069.
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- ^ Lacarrubba, F; Micali, G; Tosti, A (Mar 18, 2013). "Absence Of Vellus Hair In The Hairline: A Videodermatoscopic Feature Of Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia". The British Journal of Dermatology. 169 (2): 473–4. doi:10.1111/bjd.12316. PMID 23496000. S2CID 9044042.