Cicatricial Pemphigoid Rarely Involves the Scalp

    November 1998 in “ Australasian Journal of Dermatology ”
    Susan Ball, Valerie Walkden, Fenella Wojnarowska
    TLDR Cicatricial pemphigoid rarely affects the scalp but is hard to treat when it does.
    A case of cicatricial pemphigoid with significant scarring alopecia was presented, and a review of 54 cicatricial pemphigoid patients in Oxford (UK) was conducted. Only 4 of these patients had scarring alopecia of the scalp. Although rare, this condition was cosmetically distressing for patients and posed a difficult management problem, with no successful treatments available at the time.
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