Hair and scalp

Links to DermNet pages about hair and scalp

Diseases and conditions

• Acne and acne-like follicular disorders
• Necrotic acne
• Acute hair mats
• African hair practices
• Alopecia areata
• Alopecia from drugs

• Alopecia mucinous (follicular mucinosis)

• Anagen effluvium
• Aplasia skin

• Central centrifuge scar alopecia (CCCA)

• Male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)

• Cot cover (child seborrheic dermatitis)

• Diffuse alopecia
• Discoid lupus erythematosus
• Ectodermal dysplasia
• Erosive pustular skin disease of the scalp
• Female pattern hair loss
• Follicular occlusion syndrome
• Folliculitis
• Folliculitis decalvans
• Frontal fibrosing alopecia

• Keloidalis folliculitis (acne keloidalis)

• Graham Little syndrome
• Hair dye allergy

• Hair follicle tumors

  • Basaloid follicular hamartoma
  • Fibrofolliculoma
  • Pilar sheath acanthoma
  • Trichofolliculoma
  • Trichoepithelioma
  • Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma
  • Trichoblastoma
  • Tricoblastic fibroma
  • Trichoadenoma
  • Trichilemmoma

  • Trichilemmal cyst (pillar cyst)

  • Proliferating tricylemmal cyst
  • Pilomatricoma
  • Pilomatrix carcinoma
  • Trichoblastic carcinoma
  • Trichilemmal carcinoma
  • Evil one proliferating trichilemic cyst
• Hair loss
• Hairpieces
• Hair removal techniques
• Hair replacement surgery

• Hair Stem Defects

  • Bubble hair
  • Beaded hair / monilethrix
  • Pili Torti
  • Bamboo hair / trichorrhexis invaginata
  • Trichorhexis nodosa
  • Trichothiodystrophy
  • Acquired progressive hair twisting
  • Loose Anagen Hair Syndrome
  • Ringed hair / pili annulati
  • Pili bifurcati
  • Spun glass hair / pili trianguli et canaliculi
  • Woolly hair
  • Hair with strands / pili multigemini
• Hair loss
• Lice
• Hirsutism
• Hypertrichosis
• Hypertrichosis lanuginosa
• Lichen planus
• Male pattern baldness
• Pachyonychia congenital
• Pityriasis asbestos
• Poliosis
• Pseudofolliculitis of the beard
• Brocq's pseudo-pellet
• Psoriasis of the scalp.
• Pubic lice
• Folliculitis of the scalp
• Psoriasis of the scalp
• Sebaceous nevus
• Seborrheic dermatitis
• Razor bumps
• Short anagen syndrome
• Telogen effluvium

• Ringworm of the head (fungal scalp infection)

• Traction alopecia
• Trichoepithelioma
• Tricostasis spinulosa
• Trimethylaminuria

Treatments for hair disorders.

• Finasteride
• Minoxidil
• Shampoos
• Electrolysis
• Hair removal
• To be for hair loss