A Case of Friction Alopecia in a Healthy 15-Year-Old Girl

Emilie Fowler; Antonella Tosti

doi:10.1159/000490712

A Case of Friction Alopecia in a Healthy 15-Year-Old Girl

Emilie Fowler, Antonella Tosti

Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery

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Abstract

Friction alopecia is a non-scarring alopecia that causes hair breakage and may cause trichorrhexis nodosa. We report a case of a 15-year-old girl with self-inflicting friction alopecia that demonstrated broken hairs and proximal trichorrhexis nodosa on dermoscopy. We review various causes of friction alopecia and clinical findings, as well as trichorrhexis nodosa. 2018

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	97-99
Number of pages	3
Journal	Skin Appendage Disorders
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000490712
State	Published - Feb 1 2019

Keywords

Alopecia
Dermoscopy
Hair
Hair disorder
Non-scarring alopecia
Pediatric hair disease

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Dermatology

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