Cicatricial Pemphigoid Rarely Involves the Scalp

November 1998 in “ Australasian Journal of Dermatology ”

Susan Ball, Valerie Walkden, Fenella Wojnarowska

cicatricial pemphigoid scarring alopecia scalp

TLDR Cicatricial pemphigoid rarely affects the scalp but is hard to treat when it does.

The document presented a case of cicatricial pemphigoid with significant scarring alopecia as a major manifestation and reviewed a series of cicatricial pemphigoid patients in Oxford, UK. Out of 54 patients, only 4 had scarring alopecia of the scalp. Although rare, this manifestation posed a difficult management problem, as patients found it cosmetically distressing and there were no successful treatments available at the time.

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