"Curly" wood and tiger tails: An explanation for light and dark banding with polarization in trichothiodystrophy

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1189-1192

  Sperling, Leonard C ^a   DiGiovanna, John J ^b,c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANISOTROPY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DARKNESS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HAIR; HAIR CELL; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; LIGHT; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRICHOTHIODYSTROPHY;

HAIR; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 0141484680     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.139.9.1189     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Itin PH, Sarasin A, Pittelkow MR. Trichothiodystrophy: update on the sulfur-deficient brittle hair syndromes. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001;44:891-920.
2. Swift J. Morphology and histochemistry of human hair. EXS. 1997;78:149-175.
3. Calvieri S, Zampetti M, Corbo A, Giustini S, Rossi A, Giannelli V. Preliminary results of the use of a microanalysis system of the hair in patients with trichothiodystrophy [in Italian]. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 1988;123:583-585.
4. Price VH, Odom RB, Ward WH, Jones FT. Trichothiodystrophy: sulfur-deficient brittle hair as a marker for a neuroectodermal symptom complex. Arch Dermatol 1980;116:1375-1384.
5. Gummer CL, Dawber RP. Trichothiodystrophy: an ultrastructural study of the hair follicle. Br J Dermatol. 1985;113:273-280.
6. Kvedar J, Baden H, Baden L, Shih V, Kolodny E. Dietary management reverses grooving and abnormal polarization of hair shafts in argininosuccinase deficiency. Am J Med Genet. 1991;40:211-213.
7. Lee SS, Lee YS, Giam YC. Pseudopili annulati in a dark-haired individual: a light and electron microscopic study. Pediatr Dermatol. 2001;18:27-30.
8. de Berker D. "Tiger tail" pattern on polarized hair microscopic examination is found in healthy infants. Arch Dermatol. 1997;133:1313-1314.
9. de Berker D, Sinclair RD. The hair shaft: normality, abnormality, and genetics. Clin Dermatol. 2001;19:129-134.
10. Price V. Trichothiodystrophy: a defect in transcription. In: Camacho F, Montagna W, eds. Trichology. Madrid, Spain: Aula Medica Group; 1997:237-242.