This article reviews alopecia areata incognita, a rare condition mostly seen in young women, and discusses its similarities and differences with telogen effluvium; however, it reports no new clinical findings.
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February 2014 in “Hair therapy & transplantation”
This case report describes a one-year-old boy with combined occipito-linear and triangular fronto-temporo-parietal alopecia and discusses the possibility of these lesions being a variant of neonatal occipital alopecia.
This piece describes a study designed to quantify hair density in the frontoparietalarea of women without self-reported androgenetic alopecia, but it reports no results.
This article discusses how dihydrotestosterone (DHT) contributes to male pattern baldness by affecting genetically sensitive hair follicles and includes no new research findings.
April 2016 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology”
This study found that the occipital scalp had significantly higher epidermal nerve fiber density than the frontoparietal scalp, which may explain increased sensitivity in some patients.