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Alopecia areata with features of loose anagen hair
1Department of Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Pediatric Dermatology
|January 13, 2000
Abstract:
A child with alopecia areata (AA) presented initially with clinical features of loose anagen hair (LAH) and had features consistent with LAH on microscopic hair analysis. However, a scalp biopsy specimen demonstrated peribulbar inflammatory infiltrates characteristic of AA. We suggest that AA may mimic LAH clinically and a scalp biopsy may help in making the correct diagnosis.