Parental Decisions for Adolescent Patients: Ethical Considerations of Information Withholding
January 2019
in “
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
”
TLDR The patient accepted her hair loss and adapted by wearing a wig and tattooing her eyebrows.
Dr. Snow treated a 44-year-old female patient with atopic dermatitis and alopecia universalis, which developed rapidly from alopecia areata at age 38. Despite trying prednisone, hydroxychloroquine, iron supplementation, and bimatoprost solution, the patient did not experience hair regrowth. She accepted her condition, now wears a wig, and has tattooed eyebrows.
