The risk of coronary heart disease in men with androgenetic alopecia.

Background: The meaningful association of androgenetic alopecia and coronary heart disease has been well documented, but few studies have focused on the importance of lipid parameters, such as total cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoprotein-cholesterol, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, lipoprotein (a), apolipoprotein A1 and apolipoprotein B in patients with androgenetic alopecia.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between androgenetic alopecia and coronary heart disease and to determine the significance of certain lipid parameters on this relationship.

Subjects: Forty-one men with vertex type androgenetic alopecia (study group) and 36 men, age-matched, with normal hair status (control group) were the subjects of this study.

Three cases of verrucous carcinoma.

Verrucous carcinoma of the skin and mucosa is an uncommon clinicopathological variant of low grade squamous cell carcinoma. Here, we present three different clinical types of verrucous carcinoma. The first patient presented with an anogenital verrucous carcinoma, also known as Buschke-Loewenstein tumour.