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Top Clinical Insights Trichoscopy

Trichoscopy by Joslyn Kirby MD

  • Tinea capitis presents with corkscrew hairs in black patients and comma hairs in caucasian patients.
  • Dirty dots are found to be a normal finding on the scalp in children between 6 months and 14 years of age.
  • Exclamation hairs, vellus hairs, yellow dots, and broken hairs are seen in alopecia areata.