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A young child with alopecia areata and psoriasis improved with treatment, suggesting a link between the two conditions.

The Anchor Flap is an effective, quick treatment for severe baldness but requires skilled surgeons and careful patient selection.

AKN is a chronic scalp condition in African-descended males, treated with topicals, antibiotics, steroids, and sometimes surgery or laser.

Hair follicles in androgenetic alopecia age faster, especially in the front.

A 5-year-old girl has sparse, dry, and brittle hair but is otherwise healthy.

A 6-year-old girl with head lice developed scarring hair loss but improved with treatment.

Monilethrix is a rare, inherited condition causing fragile hair and hair loss, with no cure but some treatments may help.

The girl has a genetic hair condition causing thin hair since childhood.

The document concludes that a unique target-like hair regrowth pattern in alopecia areata may be more common than thought and should be properly identified.

Dermoscopy helps diagnose different hair loss conditions, and characteristics vary among ethnicities and individual cases.

Increased androgen receptor expression in certain hair follicle areas may cause male pattern baldness.

The document concludes that Loose Anagen Hair Syndrome is a benign condition where hair is thin and easily pulled out, often improving with age.

Excision and laser techniques can effectively treat acne keloidalis nuchae.

Hair sensitivity to androgens is partly controlled by specific enzyme expressions in different hair areas.

Chemotherapy often causes patterned hair loss, with some scalp areas more resistant to hair loss than others.

Researchers established normal hair and scalp characteristics for healthy women using trichoscopy.

Alopecia areata was most common in people in their 30s and 40s, with some family history and a higher relapse rate, and larger bald areas responded better to specific immunotherapy.

New criteria for diagnosing frontal fibrosing alopecia include specific scalp and eyebrow hair loss as major factors and other hair loss areas and hair analysis as minor factors.

The study suggests that acne keloidalis nuchae is linked to conditions like pseudofolliculitis barbae, scalp infections, metabolic syndrome, and is more common in males with an average onset age of 25.4 years.

Testosterone affects hair follicles differently across body sites, with beard hair follicles showing more activity of a specific enzyme and presence of androgen receptors compared to scalp hair.

Caucasian hair is denser, but Asian hair is thicker in female pattern hair loss patients.

The place where hair is transplanted can affect its growth and survival rates.

Trichoscopy helps diagnose frontal fibrosing alopecia, even with unusual patterns.

Chemotherapy can cause significant hair thinning and changes in hair texture, while tamoxifen has a smaller effect.

Hair loss may be an early sign of serious illnesses like Hodgkin disease.

The study found that balding scalps have more thin hairs and larger oil glands, which might contribute to skin conditions related to hair loss.

A woman experienced temporary hair loss after jaw surgery, which can be reduced by careful head positioning during the operation.

Syphilis can cause hair loss without other symptoms and should be considered when diagnosing unexplained hair loss.

Taking 1 mg of finasteride daily could potentially treat rare hair conditions like Acquired Progressive Kinking of the Hair and whisker hair.

Trichoscopy is not specific for diagnosing telogen effluvium and both telogen effluvium and androgenetic alopecia often occur together.