Hair loss is a very common complaint. Patients may describe increased shedding and diffuse or localized alopecia. The differential diagnosis of hair loss includes a number of disorders causing cicatricial or noncicatricial alopecias. This paper describes the clinical approaches and diagnostic tests that are useful in the evaluation of patients presenting with alopecia. It also reviews treatments for noncicatricial alopecias, including androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, and telogen effluvium, as well as cicatricial alopecias, including lichen planopilaris, its clinical variant frontal fibrosing alopecia, and discoid lupus erythematosus.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Chemistry
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Other
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 April 2015.
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#5,731,208
of 33,918,391 outputs
Outputs from Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology
#376
of 1,240 outputs
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#29,108
of 163,996 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology
#4
of 8 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,240 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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