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Traction Alopecia Versus Alopecia Areata

Publish date: July 1, 2012
By
Candrice R. Heath, MD
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Dr. Heath discusses the diagnosis of alopecia and how to distinguish traction alopecia from alopecia areata in black patients. For more information, read Dr. Heath's article in the May 2012 issue, "Alopecia in an Ophiasis Pattern: Traction Alopecia Versus Alopecia Areata."

 

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