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- Alopecia areata – Causes and Associated Conditions
- Alopecia Areata Information
- Alopecia Areata Treatment
- Course of Sudden Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium
- Evaluation and Treatment of Sudden Hairloss Telogen Effluvium
- Female Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss Causes
- Female Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss in Women
- Female Pattern Hair Loss Evaluation and Testing
- Female Pattern Hair Loss Treatment
- Hair loss and Alopecia Introduction
- Hair Loss Due To Hair Pulling – Trichotillomania
- Hair Loss Treatment and Male Pattern Baldness Medicine
- Loose Anagen Hair Syndrome
- Male Patern Baldness Causes and Hair Loss
- Male Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss Information
- Sudden Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium
- Traction Alopecia Hair Loss
- Traction Alopecia Hair Loss Treatment
- Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Clinical
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Histology
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Treatment
- Follicular Degeneration Syndrome
- Folliculitis Decalvans – Clinical
- Folliculitis Decalvans Treatment
- Hair Loss Alopecia With Scarring Information
- Lichen Planopilaris
- Lichen Planopilaris – Clinical Features
- Lichen Planopilaris Treatment
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Lichen Planopilaris – Clinical Features
Patients with LPP often complain of pain, stinging or burning in the areas of active disease. A rare presentation of LPP is fulminant disease that can result in complete scalp alopecia in months to a year’s time. These patients have very inflamed red scaling plaques, which on biopsy show changes of LPP. Some patients with LPP have concomitant cutaneous and/or oral lichen planus. Vulvar lichen planus has coexisted with scalp LPP in some of my patients. However, in my experience, most patients with LPP do not have lichen planus elsewhere on the body. Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is felt to be a distinctive clinical variant of LPP. Patients with FFA are usually postmenopausal women with scarring alopecia of the frontal scalp margin and associated eyebrow loss. The advancing edge of the area of alopecia may demonstrate minute perifollicular papules at the bases of terminal hairs. Biopsy findings are that of LPP.