Corkscrews on the Patchy Alopecia of a Girl

June 2018 in “ Archives of Disease in Childhood Education & Practice ”

Muhammed Razmi T, Dipankar De, Keshavamurthy Vinay

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TLDR The girl's hair started regrowing after 6 weeks of treatment.

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.

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