Folliculitis decalvans: Alopecia like a footstep with fresh and older scars. Left picture: Inflammatory area with yellowish crusts. The process has been going on for several years, in attacks which last several months. Oral antibiotics improve the severity of the attacks.
Psoriasis capitis: chronically inpatient red and white plaques, localised on the forehead and capillitium, reaching far into the hairy area, sharply defined. currently, after insufficient pre-treatment. further red plaques on the elbows.
Alopecia marginalis: Hair thinning and focal hairlessness due to constant, hairstyle-related pulling on the hair at the forehead hairline and parietally. 22-year-old woman who until recently wore tightly bound raster curls.
Keratosis pilaris syndrome. Inflammatory follicularly bound papules in the area of the hairline of a 41-year-old female patient, with multiple, whitish, atrophic areas in between with loss of the follicular ostia.
Psoriasis vulgaris. p soriasis of the scalp (untreated condition). Chronic stationary, disseminated, silvery scaling, large-area, adherent plaques of a previously skin-healthy 6-year-old boy, localized at the capillitium. Remark: In contrast to seborrhoeic eczema of the scalp, psoriasis exceeds the line of the hairline.
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