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Trichoscopy findings in dissecting cellulitis

Melo, Daniel Fernandes; Slaibi, Erica Bertolace; Siqueira, Thais Marques Feitosa Mendes; Tortelly, Violeta Duarte.

An. bras. dermatol; 94 (5), 2019

Abstract Dissecting cellulitis is an inflammatory, chronic, and recurrent disease of the hair follicles that mainly affects young Afro-descendent men. Trichoscopy is a method of great diagnostic value for disorders of the scalp. Clinical and trichoscopic findings of dissecting cellulitis are heterogeneou...

Celulitis (Flemón)/diagnóstico por imagen, Celulitis (Flemón)/patología, Dermoscopía/métodos, Eritema/diagnóstico, Eritema/patología, Cabello/diagnóstico por imagen, Cabello/patología, Folículo Piloso/diagnóstico por imagen, Folículo Piloso/patología, Dermatosis del Cuero Cabelludo/diagnóstico por imagen, Dermatosis del Cuero Cabelludo/patología, Enfermedades Cutáneas Genéticas/diagnóstico por imagen, Enfermedades Cutáneas Genéticas/patología

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Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities

Abstract: Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing ...