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. 2010 Jul 23:341:c3671.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3671.

Management of alopecia areata

M J Harries  1 , J Sun, R Paus, L E King Jr
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Management of alopecia areata

M J Harries et al. BMJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: MH and RP have received research grants from the British Skin Foundation and Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation; RP has received research grants from the University of Lubeck, has been paid for developing and delivering educational presentations for MSD, Germany, and does consultancy for Hankel (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Dr Wolff (Bielefeld, Germany); LK has received research grants from the NIH and National Alopecia Areata Foundation; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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Fig 1 Alopecia totalis treated with topical immunotherapy (2,3-diphenylcyclopropenone): (A) before treatment; (B) unilateral hair regrowth after 15 weeks of unilateral treatment; (C) complete regrowth after 42 subsequent weeks of bilateral treatment. Courtesy of R Happle, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Fig 2 Clinical presentations of alopecia areata: (A) single patch; (B) multiple patches; (c) ophiasis pattern; (d) dermatoscopy view of “exclamation mark” hairs (arrows; x30 magnification); note also monomorphic yellow dots, a common dermatoscopic feature of alopecia areataw40
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