Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Psoriatic scarring alopecia

2013; Elsevier BV; Volume: 88; Issue: 6 suppl 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132241

ISSN

1806-4841

Autores

Maiana Carneiro Almeida, Ricardo Romiti, Isabella Doche, Neusa Yuriko Sakai Valente, Aline Donati,

Tópico(s)

Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis

Resumo

Psoriasis is a relatively frequent inflammatory dermatosis. Scarring alopecia due to scalp psoriasis was first reported in 1972, but few reports have been written since then, showing that this is a very rare complication of a common disorder. We report a young Brazilian woman with longstanding scalp psoriasis, which progressed to scaring alopecia.

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