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Int J Trichology
January 2019
Department of Dermatology, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Pediatr Dermatol
March 2019
Department of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology, National Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, INSERM U 1035, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
We report a 6-month-old girl born with a fronto-parietal patch of hair straighter than the remainder of the scalp hairs. We took a biopsy to rule out a congenital melanocytic nevus. We concluded after additional scanning electron microscopy study of the hair shafts that the lesion corresponds to a possible local mosaicism causing an isolated straight hair nevus phenotype.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStraight-hair nevus of the scalp is a distinct clinical entity. A case is reported and 2 other cases from the literature are reviewed. In our patient, specific morphology of the hair shown by scanning electron microscopy suggested a disorder in keratogenesis from loss of cuticular cells.
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