Systemic Causes of Hair Loss

    May 2016 in “ Annals of Medicine ”
    Ruei-Zeng Lin, Lilit Garibyan, Alexa B. Kimball, Lynn A. Drake
    Studysummary This paper reviews seven major systemic causes of hair loss and provides a clinical evaluation framework but reports no new experimental results.
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