Top Clinical Insights: Tips for a Variety of Alopecias
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- In women, androgenetic alopecia presents with frontal hairline thinning and widening of the hair part.
- Ketoconazole shampoo has been shown to help with androgenetic alopecia.
- General anesthesia can lead to telogen effluvium.
- Lichen planopilaris presents with erythema, follicular prominence, tenderness on palpation, and intense pruritus.
- Traction alopecia will have the "fringe sign", where the shorter hairs at the frontal hairline are spared because they cannot be pulled back with the other hairs involved in the tight, pulled-back hairstyle that leads to traction alopecia.
- Consider anemia as a cause of hair loss