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This case report highlights the importance of suspecting underlying malignancy, such as Hodgkin's lymphoma, in patients with diffuse hair loss and other cutaneous symptoms.

This review discusses the use of anti-hormonal therapies for female androgenetic alopecia and notes that while some treatments show promise, larger controlled studies are needed to define their roles and effectiveness.

This study found that women with female pattern baldness had a marked increase in the 3α,17β-androstanediol glucuronide/sex hormone binding globulin ratio and low serum sex hormone binding globulin.

This article discusses various types of alopecia relevant to hospital medicine and reports no new clinical findings, emphasizing the need for accurate diagnosis and understanding of associated psychological impacts.

This study observed a higher incidence of telogen effluvium from July to October, suggesting a summer-related effect in populations above the Tropic of Cancer, possibly influenced by ultraviolet light.

This study found that dermatological manifestations in HIV-positive individuals, such as infectious and non-infectious dermatoses, were significantly associated with CD4 T cell count.

This review discusses the use of electromagnetic radiation, including low-level laser therapy, for hair loss management, but it reports no new clinical results and suggests further research.

In this overview, the authors note that both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments are effective for pattern hair loss, emphasizing early detection and intervention to maintain hair.

Polarized microscopy is a quick and free method to correctly identify types of hair loss.

The conclusion is that a new method to measure hair shine was confirmed to match people's visual assessments.

This case report documents acquired progressive kinking of the hair in a prepubertal boy but does not provide new clinical results.

This study found that diffuse alopecia in female squirrel monkeys is associated with chronic telogen effluvium and appears to be predominantly age-related, potentially serving as an animal model for human diffuse alopecia.

Different hair types from various ethnic groups affect hair shine due to characteristics like thickness and shape.

This report describes a rare case of sarcoidosis occurring on an old blepharoplasty scar in a leukemia patient, suggesting the need for a skin biopsy when firm papules appear on a scar.

This study introduced a non-invasive, three-step diagnostic algorithm for alopecia that combines clinical and trichoscopic features to accurately identify alopecia subtypes, potentially reducing reliance on invasive histopathology.

This study found that women with female pattern hair loss had significant hormonal imbalances, specifically involving adrenal androgens, suggesting these may play a central role in the condition's development.

This case report describes the first dermoscopic evaluation of alopecia areata-like disease in a dog, where the condition mirrored human cases in terms of clinical presentation and treatment response.

This report reviews various presumptive factors contributing to diffuse hair loss in women, emphasizing the need for comprehensive assessment to identify potential underlying causes; it presents no new clinical results.

This study found that standardized scalp massages may help stabilize or regrow hair in individuals with androgenic alopecia, as perceived by the participants themselves.

As skin ages, it gets thinner, paler, and more wrinkled, and protection and care like sunblock and moisturizers are important.

This review discusses recent advancements in hair loss treatments, focusing on androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, frontal fibrosing alopecia, and hair transplant technologies, without presenting new research findings.

Examining scalp biopsies in different ways helps better diagnose hair loss types.

This review highlights various treatment options for androgenetic alopecia, with a special focus on hair transplantation methods, discussing their benefits, drawbacks, and limitations as drawn from literature published from 1990 to the present.

This case study reports successful treatment of an 11-year-old girl's trichotillomania with cognitive behavioral therapy, mild topical treatments, and supportive parental involvement, without psychopharmacologic intervention.

This comment discusses the use of 'follicular Swiss cheese' as a diagnostic feature for alopecia areata and does not report new clinical findings.

This study found no significant association between genetic loci linked to male androgenetic alopecia and female-pattern hair loss in a Chinese Han population, suggesting they are etiologically separate disorders.

This study discusses incidental findings of syringomas and syringomatous proliferations in areas of scalp alopecia, suggesting they may be secondary to reactive changes from subclinical alopecia.

This study found that severity of female pattern hair loss in premenopausal women was related to other clinical signs of hyperandrogenism like hirsutism and acne, but not to biochemical measures of hyperandrogenism.

This study found significant associations between pruritus and elevated parathormone levels, and xerosis and elevated serum creatinine levels, in chronic kidney disease patients undergoing haemodialysis.

This case study reports a man with rapid hair thinning, whitening, and sparse beard, linked to an increased proportion of hair follicles in catagen or telogen phase and peribulbar lymphocytic infiltrate.