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Case Reports
. 1987 Nov;4(3):215-9.
doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.1987.tb00781.x.

Uncombable-hair syndrome

W L Matis  1 , H Baden, R Green, S Boiko, A W Lucky, L Hornstein, M Ashraf, A F Hood
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Case Reports

Uncombable-hair syndrome

W L Matis et al. Pediatr Dermatol. 1987 Nov.

Abstract

Four children had short, unmanageable, pale blond hair. They had no associated abnormalities and no family histories of abnormal hair. Light microscopy of the hair was normal in three patients, with pili torti present in the fourth. Electron microscopy of hairs from all four children revealed longitudinal grooves in the hair shaft, diagnostic of uncombable-hair syndrome.

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