Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains
enigmatic

Anna Lis-Święty; Ligia Brzeźińska-Wcisło

doi:10.5114/ada.2020.98241

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Advances in Dermatology and Allergology/Postępy Dermatologii i Alergologii

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Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic

Anna Lis-Święty

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,

Ligia Brzeźińska-Wcisło

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Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Adv Dermatol Allergol 2020; XXXVII (4): 482-489

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.98241

Online publish date: 2020/09/02

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Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is recognized to represent a generalized process of inflammatory scarring alopecia. Apart from the classic form affecting the frontal hairline, there are a range of disease manifestations involving loss of eyebrows and of eyelashes, loss of peripheral body hair, ﬁbrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution, facial and extrafacial skin, mucous membrane, and nail involvement. Classic linear, diffuse “zigzag”, pseudo “fringe sign”, androgenetic alopecia-like, cockade-like, ophiasis-like and incomplete patterns are distinguished. The aetiology of FFA remains obscure, but a number of pathogenetic hypotheses and treatments to halt disease progression have been proposed.

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Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic

Anna Lis-Święty 1 , Ligia Brzeźińska-Wcisło 1

scarring alopecia, etiopathogenesis, diagnostics, therapy

Anna Lis-Święty

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,

Ligia Brzeźińska-Wcisło

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