Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic.

Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic.
Postepy Dermatol Alergol. 2020 Aug;37(4):482-489
Authors: Lis-Święty A, Brzezińska-Wcisło L
Abstract
Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is recognized to represent a generalized process of inflammatory scarring alopecia. Apart from the classic form affecting the frontal hairline, there are a range of disease manifestations involving loss of eyebrows and of eyelashes, loss of peripheral body hair, fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution, facial and extrafacial skin, mucous membrane, and nail involvement. Classic linear, diffuse "zigzag", pseudo "fringe sign", androgenetic alopecia-like, cockade-like, ophiasis-like and incomplete patterns are distinguished. The aetiology of FFA remains obscure, but a number of pathogenetic hypotheses and treatments to halt disease progression have been proposed.
PMID: 32994767 [PubMed]

Source: Advances in Dermatology and Allergology - October 2, 2020 Category: Dermatology Tags: Postepy Dermatol Alergol Source Type: research