May 2024 in “JAAD Case Reports” This case report describes a 29-year-old man with a year-long non-itchy skin eruption and hair loss, with distinct papules and plaques across his scalp, beard, body, and suprapubic regions, but no systemic symptoms or family history of autoimmune disease.
3 citations
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July 2013 in “Journal of Cutaneous Pathology” This case report describes a 56-year-old woman whose nonscarring alopecia, consistent with alopecia areata with follicular mucinosis, resolved completely after treatment with oral prednisone.
4 citations
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June 1989 in “Archives of Dermatology” This case report describes a 65-year-old man diagnosed with a trichofolliculoma, a benign tumor originating from hair follicles, which appeared as a persistent pore on his cheek.
2 citations
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June 2012 in “American Journal of Dermatopathology” This case study describes a rare cutaneous follicular hybrid cyst intimately associated with syringocystadenoma papilliferum, proposing a potential relationship with the infrainfundibulum based on keratin expression.
7 citations
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June 2019 in “Australasian Journal of Dermatology” This study presented a case series of erosive pustular dermatosis on the scalps of elderly patients, noting unusual presentation with hypergranulation tissue and unique dermoscopic vascular patterns, diverging from typical manifestations.
June 2021 in “The Journal of Family Practice” This case report discusses a 69-year-old woman with alopecia areata who presented with a growing lesion on her hand, raising diagnostic considerations during her appointment for scalp steroid injections.
1 citations
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January 2007 in “The Internet Journal of Dermatology” This case report describes a solitary nasal fibrofolliculoma in a 60-year-old male and reviews existing literature, indicating its rare occurrence and potential link with Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome.
7 citations
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January 2023 in “Anti-Cancer Drugs” In this study, researchers reviewed cases of EGFR inhibitor-induced folliculitis decalvans and reported the first known occurrences associated with afatinib in three female NSCLC patients, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and management to improve patient quality of life.
January 2025 in “Journal of Case Reports and Scientific Images” In this case report, a 65-year-old woman was diagnosed with folliculotropic mycosis fungoides after experiencing scarring alopecia and intense pruritus, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis due to its aggressive nature.
24 citations
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July 2009 in “Mycoses” This case report describes an adult patient with tinea capitis due to Microsporum canis who experienced complete hair regrowth following treatment with fluconazole and ketoconazole shampoo.
This case report highlights the effective treatment of tinea capitis with griseofulvin in a young girl, even when previous antifungal treatments were used.
2 citations
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March 2016 in “International Journal of Dermatology” This article reports no new clinical results and reviews a case of scarring alopecia in conjunction with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.
June 2020 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” This study found that fibrosis-associated trochanters in central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia are enriched with hair follicle stem cells and may indicate a disrupted stem cell niche contributing to scarring.
1 citations
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March 2013 in “International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery” This case report describes a patient who experienced recalcitrant folliculitis leading to atrophic scarring following eyebrow transplantation.
19 citations
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September 2002 in “Acta dermato-venereologica” In this retrospective study, anti-tuberculous agents, likely rifampicin, were effective adjunctive therapies for a chalazion, coinciding with spontaneous drainage in a patient with rosacea.
This case report describes a two-year-old boy successfully treated for lupus profundus with oral steroids and hydroxychloroquine, leading to resolution of symptoms but some residual atrophy.
1 citations
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November 2017 in “Skin appendage disorders” Ingrown hairs are a common feature in scarring alopecias due to follicular damage.
January 1999 in “대한피부과학회지” This case study reports that a 34-year-old man with perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens showed significant improvement and no local recurrence after six months of isotretinoin treatment.
28 citations
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January 2014 in “Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology” This study found that dermatoscopy is useful for diagnosing and assessing primary cicatricial alopecias in Chinese patients, with alopecia mucinosa having a distinct feature of patulous follicular openings.
January 2022 in “Journal of clinical and diagnostic research” This case report describes an uncommon occurrence of trichofolliculoma in a 64-year-old male, which was easily treated through simple excision.
April 2025 in “Veterinary Dermatology” This study observed that dermoscopy is a useful technique for distinguishing between infundibular keratinising acanthoma and follicular cysts in dogs, with specific dermoscopic features noted for each.
September 2025 in “Annals of Plastic Surgery” In this case report, a 76-year-old male had an eyelid lesion that mimicked squamous cell carcinoma but was diagnosed as benign inverted follicular keratosis after surgical excision, underscoring the importance of distinguishing between the two for proper management.
2 citations
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November 1999 in “Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery” 9 citations
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January 2004 in “Journal of dermatological treatment” This study reports that oral rifampicin effectively treated the pustular lesions of tufted hair folliculitis in a 47-year-old woman, with no relapses after one year.
25 citations
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October 2018 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” This study concluded that erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp may be a type of spongiotic, pustular superficial folliculitis, sharing similarities with other neutrophilic dermatoses.
14 citations
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June 2013 in “Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia” This report found follicular red dots in patients with scalp pigmentary disorders, suggesting they might be linked to the scalp's vascular structure and may have implications for conditions like discoid lupus erythematosus.
September 2023 in “Cosmoderma” This abstract describes a rare case of a young Kashmiri woman with neglected scarring alopecia due to favus, a type of tinea capitis more commonly observed in Kashmiri children.
17 citations
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July 1984 in “British journal of dermatology/British journal of dermatology, Supplement” This study describes a distinctive form of ichthyosis characterized by abnormal epidermal differentiation mainly within hair follicles in four patients with congenital follicular hyperkeratosis.
3 citations
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March 2015 in “Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” Some people with primary cicatricial alopecia also have inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting a possible connection.
18 citations
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June 2004 in “Mycoses” This case study describes effective treatment of local alopecia caused by Trichophyton schoenleinii in two patients, using griseofulvin and ciclopirox cream, respectively.