Psychosocial burden of frontal fibrosing alopecia: a qualitative interview study

Madison K Cook¹, Patrick O Perche¹, Jonathan C White¹, Steven R Feldman^{1

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4}, Lindsay C Strowd¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Dermatology Research, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
³ Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Madison K Cook et al. Br J Dermatol. 2022 Dec.

. 2022 Dec;187(6):1013-1015.

doi: 10.1111/bjd.21786. Epub 2022 Aug 17.

Madison K Cook¹, Patrick O Perche¹, Jonathan C White¹, Steven R Feldman^{1

2

3

4}, Lindsay C Strowd¹

¹ Center for Dermatology Research, Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
³ Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

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