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Essential syphilitic alopecia revisited
D W Cuozzo1, P M Benson, L C Sperling
1Dermatology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
There has been a resurgence of syphilis in the past decade. Uncommonly, diffuse hair loss, termed essential alopecia, is the only sign of syphilitic infection. We describe two patients with syphilis in whom the first sign of disease was alopecia and discuss the clinical and histopathologic findings of essential syphilitic alopecia.