Burden of hair loss: Stress and the underestimated psychosocial impact of telogen effluvium and androgenetic alopecia

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 455-457

  Hadshiew, Ina M ^a   Foitzik, Kerstin ^a   Arck, Petra C ^b   Paus, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINOXIDIL; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANGER; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FRUSTRATION; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR LOSS; HATE; HUMAN; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SHAME; STRESS;

EID: 4143091637     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202X.2004.23237.x     Document Type: Article

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