Corkscrews on the Patchy Alopecia of a Girl
June 2018
in “
Archives of Disease in Childhood Education & Practice
”
Studysummary In this case report, an adolescent girl with itchy alopecic patches showed hair regrowth and no new alopecia patches after 6 weeks of treatment, despite initial minimal improvement with oral doxycycline. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.
An adolescent girl with a 6-month history of itchy alopecic patches and pus discharge on her scalp showed minimal improvement after 3 months of oral doxycycline. Dermoscopic examination revealed coiled, corkscrew-shaped hairs at the margins of the alopecic patches. Treatment over 6 weeks resulted in hair regrowth and no new alopecia patches.
