Occipital alopecia in a young man
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Annika Weinhammer1, Kevin Rolnick, Bridget E Shields
1Department of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI. annikaweinhammer@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Lipedematous alopecia is a rare, non-androgenic form of alopecia that is challenging to diagnose, often requiring clinical-pathological correlation. The condition has been reported predominantly in African-American females, but more recently has been described in a broader demographic [1,2]. We describe a rare case of a young Caucasian man with isolated lipedematous alopecia who presented with a boggy, erythematous plaque with alopecia of the occipital scalp and subcutaneous thickening with lymphocytic dermal infiltrate and decreased anagen hairs on histology.
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