Every now and then an article about alopecia areata comes out that deserves everyone’s attention—this is one of them: “Medical Progress: Alopecia Areata” (N Engl J Med 2012;366:1515-25).
For our community, we especially recommend the excellent photography, graphics and diagrammatic pairings of:
Check out the article and see what you think.
The authors—Drs. Amos Gilhar and Amos Etzioni (of Haifa, Israel) and Dr. Ralf Paus (of Lubeck, Germany and Manchester, England)—believe it’s important for people to understand normal hair growth so they can better understand abnormal hair growth.
We think you’ll find the graphics of the follicle structures and their micro-environments, along with the vocabulary used to describe them, very useful in understanding alopecia areata.
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