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https://read.qxmd.com/read/15800842/-severe-virilization-in-a-postmenopausal-woman-a-case-report
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
D U Boehm, W Munz, R Seufert, K Pollow
Severe postmenopausal virilization is a rare event in clinical practice. To evaluate ovarian or adrenal hyperandrogenism endocrine tests and imaging are useful diagnostic tools. We report a case of a postmenopausal woman with hirsutism and androgenetic alopecia. A malignant cause for the present disorder could be excluded by imaging. Selective venous sampling was administered with increased testosterone level of the right adrenal vein. Right adrenalectomy and right oophorctomy was recommended.
April 2005: Zentralblatt Für Gynäkologie
https://read.qxmd.com/read/15604539/kenogen-in-female-androgenetic-alopecia-a-longitudinal-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Guarrera, A Rebora
BACKGROUND: Kenogen indicates the physiological interval of the hair cycle in which the hair follicle remains empty after the telogen hair has been extruded and before a new anagen hair emerges. Kenogen frequency and duration are greater in men and women with androgenetic alopecia (AGA). OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship of kenogen with female AGA. METHODS: A woman with AGA, studied 14 years before, was re-examined for 2 years by the phototrichogram technique...
2005: Dermatology: International Journal for Clinical and Investigative Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/15099373/women-who-present-with-female-pattern-hair-loss-tend-to-underestimate-the-severity-of-their-hair-loss
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
S Biondo, D Goble, R Sinclair
BACKGROUND: Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) is the preferred term for androgenetic alopecia in women. FPHL can be a source of considerable distress for affected women. Our hypothesis was that women with FPHL who seek treatment would rate their condition as more severe than would their treating doctors. OBJECTIVES: To identify discrepancies between the severity ratings of the women and their clinicians. METHODS: Participants were 30 women receiving treatment for biopsy-proven FPHL and 44 women on a waiting list to receive treatment for FPHL...
April 2004: British Journal of Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/14616495/cutaneous-angiosarcoma-of-the-face-and-scalp-presenting-as-alopecia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stuart Murray, Ivan Simmons, Craig James
An 83-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of hair loss and painless bruising involving her forehead and scalp. She was otherwise well. Skin biopsy of her scalp confirmed angiosarcoma with a significant increase in miniaturized and telogen hair follicles and some tumour-associated scarring hair loss. She was commenced on the chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel and then subsequently the semi-synthetic taxane docetaxol. Treatment was terminated because of lack of response and adverse effects. Alopecia is an uncommon presentation in angiosarcoma and in this case there was a mixed pattern of focal scarring and follicular miniaturization...
November 2003: Australasian Journal of Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/12581085/androgenetic-alopecia-in-a-postmenopausal-woman-as-a-result-of-ovarian-hyperthecosis
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REVIEW
Youngjin Kim, Veli-Matti Marjoniemi, Terry Diamond, Adrian Lim, Greg Davis, Dedee Murrell
A 65-year-old woman presented with an 8-year history of progressive frontotemporal alopecia and hirsutism. She had elevated serum levels of testosterone, androstenedione and estradiol. Ultrasound and computed tomography imaging suggested a right ovarian mass, while bilateral ovarian venous sampling demonstrated increased testosterone levels originating from both ovarian veins. Histology obtained following bilateral oophorectomy demonstrated bilateral ovarian hyperthecosis. Six months after surgery, the patient remains well with no progression of the alopecia...
February 2003: Australasian Journal of Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/12423443/sensitization-to-saw-palmetto-and-minoxidil-in-separate-topical-extemporaneous-treatments-for-androgenetic-alopecia
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rodney D Sinclair, Rica S Mallari, Bruce Tate
We report a 24-year-old woman with androgenetic alopecia who became sensitized to topical minoxidil following use of an extemporaneous preparation of minoxidil 4% with retinoic acid in a propylene glycol base. She subsequently also became sensitized to saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), a topical herbal extract commonly promoted for the treatment of hair loss.
November 2002: Australasian Journal of Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11488711/spironolactone-induced-hepatitis
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
K E Thai, R D Sinclair
There is widespread use of spironolactone in medical practice and the indications for its use well established and side effect profile well known. Herein, we present a case of drug-induced hepatitis occurring in a 50-year-old woman using spironolactone for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia. Six weeks after commencement of spironolactone the patient became unwell, complained of an extensive itch, but no icterus or jaundice. Liver function tests found abnormally elevated bilirubin and enzymes levels. After withdrawal of spironolactone, the patient's symptoms resolved and liver function improved...
August 2001: Australasian Journal of Dermatology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11284072/-multiple-pigmented-basalioma-of-the-scalp-in-a-patient-with-curschmann-steinert-myotonia-dystrophica-confirmation-of-a-rare-symptom-constellation
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
P H Itin, R H Laeng
A 50-year-old woman presented with myotonic dystrophy (Curschmann-Steinert disease) and multiple pigmented basal cell carcinomas of the scalp. She also had typical androgenetic alopecia seen in this disorder. In 1986 Stieler and Plewig described the first patient with myotonic dystrophy and multiple basal cell carcinomas. There may be a genetic predisposition for cutaneous tumors with follicular origin, as multiple pilomatricomas also occur frequently in such patients.
March 2001: Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift Für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und Verwandte Gebiete
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11189837/-idiopathic-chronic-telegon-effluvium-in-the-woman
#29
REVIEW
R M Trüeb
In approximately 30% of cases of chronic diffuse loss of scalp hair with a duration of at least 6 months, no underlying abnormality can be found. Typically this occurs in women, starting abruptly without a recognizable initiating factor, and involving the entire scalp area with increased shedding of telogen hair. With the exception of bitemporal recession, hair thinning is usually discrete, and contrasts to the great emotional overtones in this situation. This may initially lead to the differential diagnosis of psychogenic pseudo effluvium...
December 2000: Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift Für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und Verwandte Gebiete
https://read.qxmd.com/read/11150889/apparent-cortisone-reductase-deficiency-a-rare-cause-of-hyperandrogenemia-and-hypercortisolism
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
A Biason-Lauber, S L Suter, C H Shackleton, M Zachmann
A 55-year-old woman presented with androgenetic alopecia which had started at age 40. Her clinical history revealed that, unlike her younger sister, she was unable to conceive and was diagnosed as being sterile at age 30. At age 45, 21-hydroxylase deficiency (late-onset CAH) was assumed and glucocorticoid treatment suggested, but not initiated. There was slight hirsutism, but no other sign of virilization. Retesting of plasma steroids revealed elevated 17-OH-progesterone and free testosterone. Treatment with prednisone, cyproterone acetate, and spironolactone was started with significant clinical success...
2000: Hormone Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/10027527/diffuse-alopecia-with-stem-cell-folliculitis-chronic-diffuse-alopecia-areata-or-a-distinct-entity
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
S Kossard
A 34-year-old woman presented with an 8-year history of slowly progressive diffuse nonscarring alopecia with loss of hair density. Scalp biopsy specimens showed increased miniaturized follicles and an asymmetric wedge-shaped lymphocytic infiltrate concentrated on the stem cell-rich region at the point of entry of sebaceous ducts and at bulge-like regions of multiple follicles. Several hair bulbs emerging at the stem cell compartment also were inflamed, but the hair bulbs in the deeper dermis and subcutis were spared...
February 1999: American Journal of Dermatopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/7606371/new-aspects-in-hair-transplantation-for-females
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
U E Halsner, M W Lucas
BACKGROUND: In the overall spectrum of plastic surgery, hair transplantation for females still plays a marginal role. Previously applied standard methods (standard grafts) could not produce aesthetically satisfying results, so that many female patients who could have benefitted from an operation were discouraged from doing so. It was not until the method of using minigrafts exclusively to cover large areas of androgenetic alopecia in men was developed that acceptable treatment possibilities were also made available to women...
July 1995: Dermatologic Surgery: Official Publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et Al.]
https://read.qxmd.com/read/2635140/-usefulness-and-limitations-of-the-evaluation-of-sex-hormone-binding-globulin-in-women-with-a-female-pattern-of-androgen-induced-baldness
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
G Noto, F Maneschi, F Palisi, G Pravatà, M Aricò
Sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and androgen serum levels have been evaluated in a homogeneous group of women with female pattern of androgenetic alopecia (AA), stage II, without any clinical or anamnestic evidence of acne, hirsutism, irregular menses. Results did not show any significant difference between patients and controls. Since SHBG levels are androgen-dependent, the discordant results of previous published series regarding women with AA could be related to the presence of a variable number of patients with clinical and/or anamnestic evidence of a "cryptic" hyperandrogenism in some series, and to their absence in others...
September 1989: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia: Organo Ufficiale, Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Sifilografia
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