Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities.
An Bras Dermatol
; 92(5): 724-726, 2017.
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| ID: mdl-29166518
Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing importance of trichoscopy and its findings in the evaluation of the scalp, this article describes the main diseases in which yellow dots are a common trichoscopic finding, highlighting its characteristics in each dermatosis.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Dermatoses do Couro Cabeludo
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Dermatopatias Genéticas
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Celulite (Flegmão)
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Alopecia em Áreas
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
An Bras Dermatol
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Espanha