Additional Methods for Diagnosing Alopecia and Appraising Their Severity
February 2014
in “
PubMed
”
TLDR The document concludes that objective methods are important for diagnosing different types of alopecia and monitoring treatment, and standardizing these techniques is necessary.
The document from 2014 discussed various methods for diagnosing alopecia and assessing its severity. It emphasized the importance of objective techniques in diagnosing hair diseases, as they can help distinguish between different types of alopecia, assess the severity of hair loss, and monitor the effects of hair growth therapies. The methods were classified into non-invasive (pull test, wash test, daily count, phototrichogram), semi-invasive (trichogram and unit area trichogram), and invasive (biopsy). The paper also stressed the need for standardization of these techniques and identification of normal values.
