Alopecia, Introduction

ALOPECIA

Alopecia, Introduction

Mar
2006
Vol. 25. No. 1
Shawn E Cowper, MD

Afros, dreadlocks, skinheads, hippies, spikes, braids, Samson, Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and “Hair” the musical? It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of hair in our society. Despite this, however, there are relatively few physicians and scientists who devote their practice and research to the study of hair loss (alopecia). Nevertheless, in the last century enormous progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of many disorders that eventuate in alopecia (Fig. 1).

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