Late-onset alopecia areata: descriptive analysis of 30 cases
Abstract Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease characterized by non-scaring hair loss. The onset in over 50-year-old patients is rare and has barely been studied. Cases of this disease have been retrospectively analyzed – according to clinical forms, extension, and associated diseases – to assess alopecia areata characteristics in a group of patients whose disease onset was after the age of 50. 30 patients were studied; a few of them presented with autoimmune-related diseases or family history. The disease onset after the age of 50 seems to have different characteristics from those found in young people.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-05962016000600844 |
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