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1Department of Family Practice, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, Family Practice Residency Program, Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals, Inc., Saginaw, Michigan, USA. jackso92@pilot.mus.edu
Primary Care
|May 18, 2000
Abstract:
Disorders of the hair are commonplace in the primary care practice. Among these disorders are male pattern baldness, Telogen effluvium, alopecia areata, Trichotillomania, and fungal infections involving the hair shaft. A review of the normal anatomy and life cycle of hair also is presented.