Androgenetic Alopecia or Fibrosing Alopecia in a Pattern Distribution: When to Perform Biopsy in Unusual Cases?
January 2022
in “
Indian Journal of Dermatology
”
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research Fibrosing Alopecia in a Pattern Distribution
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