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May 1995 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology”
This article describes two cases where essentialalopecia was the initial sign of syphilitic infection, examining the clinical and histopathologic features observed.
This case report discusses alopeciasyphilitica in a young Belgian man, notes that hair loss was his only symptom, and highlights the improvement following penicillin treatment.
This case report discusses a 35-year-old man with progressive alopecia areata who did not respond to minoxidil treatment but offers no new clinical trial results.
This case report highlights a rare instance of syphiliticalopecia and ocular syphilis in an immunocompetent, HIV-negative woman, showing that syphilis-directed treatment led to symptom reversal, emphasizing the need to consider syphilis in the differential diagnosis for atypical alopecia.