Dermatoscopic Findings in Androgenetic Alopecia

    September 2023 in “ Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ”
    Charu Bansal, Md. Abu Raihan, Manali Manali
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    TLDR Trichoscopy helps diagnose and track treatment for hair loss in men and women.
    The study "Dermatoscopic Findings in Androgenetic Alopecia" involved 80 patients with Androgenetic Alopecia (AGA), 50 males and 30 females. The researchers used trichoscopy, a non-invasive method that uses dermoscopy to capture images of the scalp and hair, to study the features of AGA. The most common trichoscopic feature found in all patients was Hairshaft thickness heterogeneity (HSTH). Other findings included the brown peripilar sign in 30 patients, white peripilar sign in 24 patients, pin point white dots in 20 patients, yellow dots in 2 patients, focal atrichia in 12 patients, and scalp honeycomb pigmentation in 15 patients. The study concluded that trichoscopy is a simple, non-invasive tool that aids in the diagnosis of AGA and allows for easy documentation, which can help in evaluating a therapeutic response by comparing pre and post-treatment images.
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