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Frontal fibrosing alopecia: case report.

Débora Nathália DN Smidarle, Mauren M Seidl, and Roberta Castilhos da RC Silva

An Bras Dermatol 85(6):879-82 (2010) PMID 21308313

Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a kind of progressive and frequently irreversible cicatricial alopecia marked by a lichenoid infiltrate in histology. Since its first description, in 1994, in Australia, some cases have been documented all over the world. The article reports, for the second time in the medical literature, a Brazilian case and reviews the main aspects of this dermatosis.

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