Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia: A New Autoimmune Entity?

    January 2019 in “ Medical Hypotheses ”
    Juan Esteban García-Robledo, Cristian C. Aragón, Ivana Nieto‐Aristizábal … Gabriel J. Tobón
    Studysummary This hypothesis article explores frontal fibrosing alopecia as a potential autoimmune condition and calls for future research to investigate this possibility, but reports no new clinical results.
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