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Case Reports
. 2022 Oct-Dec;39(4):188-189.
doi: 10.4103/joc.joc_25_22. Epub 2022 Nov 14.

Monilethrix: A Cytologist's Perspective

Anjali Mittal  1 , Meeta Singh  1 , Shabnam Singh  1 , Ashish Jain  2 , Krishna D Barman  3
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Monilethrix: A Cytologist's Perspective

Anjali Mittal et al. J Cytol. 2022 Oct-Dec.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(a) Child with bald scalp with few small lustreless hairs over parietal region. (b) Trichoscopy of scalp revealing tiger tail appearance of hair
Figure 2
Figure 2
(a) Cytological examination of the hair by scrape smears: Unstained Smear (Optical zoom: 400X, Digital zoom 1.10X) [Blue arrow: Internode, Red arrow: Node]. (b) Giemsa-stained scrape smear from scalp demonstrating beaded appearance of hair with internodes at regular interval (Optical zoom: 400X, Digital zoom 1.24X)
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