Drugs and Hair Loss: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications
September 2012
in “
Dermatologic Clinics
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Studysummary This review discusses possible medication-induced hair loss and the need to exclude other confounding factors like stress and illness; it reports no new clinical findings and emphasizes careful assessment before attributing hair loss to medications.
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