Correlation of clinical and trichoscopy features with the degree of histologic inflammation in lichen planopilaris and frontal fibrosing alopecia in a cross-sectional study

To The Editor: Follow-up assessment of primary cicatricial alopecia inflammatory activity is a major challenge in clinical practice. Symptoms, signs, clinical extent of involvement, and pull tests are used to assess the disease activity of lichen planopilaris (LPP) and frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) in different scores such as LPPAI, FFASI, FFASS, and ALODEXFFA.1-4 However, many of these scoring systems rely on clinical parameters without trichoscopic or histopathologic correlation.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Research letter Source Type: research