Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: Successfully Treated with Methotrexate or Just the Natural Disease Progression?

    December 2020
    Matheo Augusto Morandi Stumpf, Eloína do Rocio Valenga Baroni, Marcelo Derbli Schafranski
    Studysummary This case report describes a woman with frontal fibrosing alopecia who did not improve with hydroxychloroquine and topical minoxidil but achieved clinical stabilization with methotrexate monotherapy.
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