Unusual loss of body hair in childhood: Trichotillomania or alopecia

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 380-387

  Hon, Kam Lun Ellis ^a   Leung, Alexander K C ^b   Ng, Pak C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alopecia totalis; Alopecia universalis; Hair loss; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

CHINESE DRUG; CLINDAMYCIN PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPHENCYPRONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPHENIDATE; MINOXIDIL; MOMETASONE FUROATE; OLIVE OIL; RETINOIC ACID; TACROLIMUS; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREGNANE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSTROPHY; ECZEMA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVENING DOSAGE; EYEBROW; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FOLLICULITIS; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; ONSET AGE; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCALP; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; COUNSELING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNADIENEDIOLS; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 58149335381     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12325-008-0044-8     Document Type: Article

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