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Hair, nail, and pigment changes in major systemic disease
- Source :
- Clinics in Dermatology. 26:296-305
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- In this article, the nail, hair, and pigment changes caused by systemic diseases will be reviewed. Among the subjects discussed are abnormalities of shape, attachments, surface, and color of the nails; hair alterations such as telogen and anagen effluvium, scarring alopecia, hypertrichosis, and hirsutism; and pigment changes due to connective tissue disorders, sarcoidosis, and metabolic and endocrinologic diseases, among others.
- Subjects :
- Male
Anagen effluvium
Hypertrichosis
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Systemic disease
Connective tissue
Dermatology
Scarring alopecia
Nail Diseases
Humans
Medicine
skin and connective tissue diseases
hirsutism
integumentary system
biology
business.industry
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
medicine.anatomical_structure
Nail (anatomy)
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
Hair Diseases
business
Pigmentation Disorders
Cabello
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0738081X
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinics in Dermatology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....719e1346e11d1673521afae8aa9eaa9a