Diagnosing and treating hair disorders is still a subject that is rarely or only superficially covered in residency training. Hence, dermatopathologists and clinical dermatologists often find a gap in their knowledge. A new edition of an acclaimed text, An Atlas of Hair Pathology with Clinical Correlations, Second Edition bridges this gap and serves as a primer, an atlas, and a reference.

Features:

• Supplies basic information on anatomy
• Examines clinical features that provide a clinical / pathological correlation
• Details the practical processes of evaluating specimens
• Includes new photographs demonstrating basic and advanced histologic features of hair disease
• Explores several new diagnoses

Disorders in this edition include senescent balding, loose anagen hair syndrome, psoriatic alopecia, and psoriatic alopecia, and chemotherapy-induced alopecia. The book also contains a glossary of terms related to hair pathology.

Review

“This book comprehensively addresses the subject of hair pathology. The excellent collection of images and detailed explanation of the clinical conditions will prove invaluable to any budding practitioner of the art and science of “trichopathology.”
―SkinMed

About the Author

Leonard C Sperling:, MD, COL, MC USA,
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Chair of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University
Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Shawn Cowper: MD
Department of Dermatology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Eleanor Knopp: MD
Department of Dermatology
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Contents

Chapter 1 Using this book
Chapter 2 Specimen acquisition, handling and processing
Chapter 3 Normal hair anatomy and architecture
Chapter 4 Evaluating and describing transverse [horizontal} sections
Chapter 5 Classification of hair disease
Chapter 6 Distinctive or critical histological features and associated diseases
Chapter 7 Clinical correlation
Chapter 8 Senescent alopecia [ senile alopecia or “senescent balding”)
Chapter 9 Androgenetic alopecia
Chapter 10 Telogen effluvium
Chapter 11 Trichotillomania
Chapter 12 Traction alopecia
Chapter 13 Postoperative [pressure-induced] alopecia
Chapter 14 Temporal triangular alopecia
Chapter 15 Alopecia areata
Chapter 16 Psoriatic alopecia
Chapter 17 Tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor associated psoriasiform alopecia [drug-induced psoriasiform alopecia)
Chapter 18 Syphilitic alopecia
Chapter 19 Noncicatricial alopecia from systemic lupus erythematosus
Chapter 20 Loose anagen hair syndrome
Chapter 21 Central, centrifugal, cicatricial alopecia
Chapter 22 Acne keloidalis [folliculitis keloidalis)
Chapter 23 Folliculitis decalvans
Chapter 24 Tufted folliculitis
Chapter 25 Lichen planopilaris
Chapter 26 FrontaI fibrosing alopecia
Chapter 27 Fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution
Chapter 28 Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus
Chapter 29 Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp [perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens)
Chapter 30 Erosive pustular dermatosis
Chapter 31 Brocq’s alopecia [pseudopelade of Brocq) and end-stage cicatricial alopecia
Chapter 32 Aplasia cutis congenita of the scalp
Chapter 33 Tinea capitis
Chapter 34 Trichodysplasia of immunosuppression
Chapter 35 Chemotherapy-induced alopecia
Chapter 36 Overview of hair shaft disorders