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This case report describes a novel mutation in the CDH3 gene in an 11-year-old Iranian boy with sparse scalp hair and macular dystrophy, leading to altered P-cadherin synthesis.

This case report details an eleven-year-old male with recurring alopecia initially attributed to fungal infections but ultimately diagnosed as trichotillomania.

This article discusses the rare condition of hypertrichosis, highlighting a case of a 10-year-old boy with congenital hair growth and emphasizing the need for patient support due to limited treatment options.

This article reviews treatment approaches for trichotillomania, emphasizing differences from OCD therapies and recommending specific management strategies, without providing new experimental findings.

This abstract reports no new research findings on the association between acquired hair pigment loss and a flexural dermatosis; it serves as an article access notice.

This review discusses the genetic disorder, monilethrix, characterized by fragile, brittle hair and its inheritance patterns, and reports no new clinical results.

This study diagnosed a group of six girls with various ectodermal abnormalities, identifying cranio-skeletal malformations consistent with focal dermal hypoplasia (Goltz syndrome), and found heterozygous mutations in the PORCN gene in two children.

This study reported a previously undescribed form of hereditary hypotrichosis in a family, characterized by childhood-onset hair loss, morphea, and probable autosomal dominant inheritance.

This paper reviews the literature on acquired trichorrhexis nodosa, a clinical hair loss diagnosis associated with hair care practices, particularly in those with tightly curled hair, and emphasizes management through protective hair care regimens rather than traditional prescription therapies.

This article reviews the condition plica neuropathica, including its manifestations, potential causes, and treatment, but it does not provide new clinical findings.

Loose anagen hair syndrome causes easily shed hair but usually improves with time.

This case report describes a 5-year-old girl with an extensive Microsporum canis scalp infection, highlighting griseofulvin as the preferred treatment and noting corticosteroids' benefit in severe inflammatory cases.

This review provides an updated overview of the symptomatology, diagnosis, trichoscopy findings, and treatment options for eyebrow and eyelash alopecia, but it reports no new experimental results.

This case report describes a 36-year-old man with tinea incognito manifesting as asymptomatic, flat patches of alopecia, which did not improve with standard treatments.

This study investigated demographic and clinical characteristics of twenty-nail dystrophy in Korea, identifying differences in subtype and gender predominance between children and adults.

The conclusion is that "trichoknesis" should be recognized as a separate condition from trichodynia, characterized by itching instead of pain.

This study outlines trichodynia, a painful scalp condition often linked with various types of alopecia and psychiatric disorders, noting the absence of specific treatments and highlighting the need for further research on therapeutic options.

This case report describes a 12-year-old boy with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis and progressing acro-osteolysis, highlighting the severe complications and the necessity for early intervention.

This case report describes the diagnosis of monilethrix in a 2-year-old boy using trichoscopy, highlighting its rarity and the challenge of diagnosing it without a family history.

This case report describes a 59-year-old woman with a rare trichoepithelioma on her eyelid, emphasizing the importance for optometrists to differentiate it from basal cell carcinoma.

Scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, can occur in people with restrictive diets and can be diagnosed by twisted hair shafts.

This case report discusses a young woman who developed bilateral osteonecrosis of the femoral head after corticosteroid treatment for alopecia areata, underscoring the risk of this complication in patients undergoing such therapy.

This report describes an 8-year-old male with trichotillomania, confirmed by trichoscopy showing characteristic hair damage and patterns.

This case report describes a patient experiencing nail nonadherence due to sterile matrix scarring associated with valproic acid use, and suggests nail bed excision with sterile matrix grafting as a potential surgical solution.

This study found that polycystic ovary syndrome was the most common cause of hirsutism among premenopausal Algerian women, affecting nearly 60% of participants.

This article reviews the social and functional impact of eyebrow loss and highlights the limited treatment options compared to scalp alopecia, but reports no new clinical results.

This article reports on a family with six members diagnosed with monilethrix, highlighting varying degrees of alopecia linked to this rare hair shaft defect.

In this study, researchers identified elongated corkscrew hairs as a new trichoscopic pattern in immunosuppressed adults with chronic endothrix tinea capitis, which may help in earlier diagnosis and targeted mycological investigation.

An elderly man's non-healing scalp lesion was successfully treated with a strong topical steroid.

NB-002 is a promising new topical treatment for fungal nail infections, showing better results than a non-medicated option.