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Volume8, Issue4

A Cross-Sectional study on Trichoscopic Relevance in the Differential Diagnosis of Alopecia in Tertiary Care Center

    Dr. Sudhir Medhekar, Dr. Kruti Jain, Dr. Amani Joga, Dr. Simran Agrawal

European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 2021, Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 1539-1544

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Background: Alopecia in women is generally difficult to diagnose clinically. Trichoscopy may help make the correct diagnosis in doubtful cases. Objective: The aims of the study were to assess the trichoscopic features of different types of alopecia in women, the reliability of trichoscopy vis-à-vis clinical findings, and the validity of trichoscopy in cases with a doubtful clinical diagnosis. Material & Methods: A hospital-based observational, cross-sectional study was carried out on women patients with alopecia. A trichoscopic diagnosis was made and correlated with a clinical diagnosis. The validity of trichoscopy in doubtful cases was evaluated by reporting the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and diagnostic value. Results: A total of 80 patients were recruited including 38 men and 42 women. The mean age at presentation was 26.84 years (range: 10–59 years). Sixty patients had non‑cicatricial alopecia and the remaining 20 had cicatricial alopecia. The most common trichoscopic findings were  yellow dots (50 patients, 62.5%) and thin hair (33 patients, 41.25%). In patients with alopecia areata, the most frequent findings were yellow dots (92.3%), black dots (68.2%) and exclamation mark hair (72.3%) and Villous Hair (62%). The most common finding in telogen effluvium (TE) was thin hair which was seen in 65.2% of patients.   Conclusion: We conclude that trichoscopy is a relevant investigation in patients with alopecia and has a definite role in the diagnosis of difficult cases. Trichoscopy helped reach a definitive diagnosis in patients in whom the clinical diagnosis was doubtful.
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(2021). A Cross-Sectional study on Trichoscopic Relevance in the Differential Diagnosis of Alopecia in Tertiary Care Center. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 8(4), 1539-1544.
Dr. Sudhir Medhekar, Dr. Kruti Jain, Dr. Amani Joga, Dr. Simran Agrawal. "A Cross-Sectional study on Trichoscopic Relevance in the Differential Diagnosis of Alopecia in Tertiary Care Center". European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 8, 4, 2021, 1539-1544.
(2021). 'A Cross-Sectional study on Trichoscopic Relevance in the Differential Diagnosis of Alopecia in Tertiary Care Center', European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 8(4), pp. 1539-1544.
A Cross-Sectional study on Trichoscopic Relevance in the Differential Diagnosis of Alopecia in Tertiary Care Center. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 2021; 8(4): 1539-1544.
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