An Atlas of Hair Pathology with Clinical Correlations

The first comprehensive review of the microscopic pathology of hair disease, this book serves as a primer, an atlas, and a reference text on how to diagnose hair disease from the physical evidence. It contains 365 illustrations from the author's personal collection of slides. As a primer , the book reviews very basic information, including hair anatomy and the “nuts and bolts” of processing and evaluating pathology specimens. The authors assume that the reader knows very little about hair disease or hair pathology, and so a step-by-step approach is utilized. As an atlas , the book is rich in photographs demonstrating both basic and advanced histological features of hair disease. As a reference , the book includes the most up-to-date information about the pathology of hair disease, presented with a synopsis format. Basic clinical features are reviewed to provide clinical-pathologic correlation. * Leonard C Sperling:, MD, COL, MC USA, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Chair of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA * Shawn Cooper: MD, Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA * Eleanor Knopp: MD, Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Table of contents # 1 Normal hair anatomy and architecture # 2 Epidemiology # *3 ‘Counting hairs’: how to do it # 4 Specimen acquisition, handling and processing # 5 Evaluating and describing transverse (horizontal) sections # 6 Classification of hair disease # 7 Distinctive or critical histological features and associated diseases # 8 Clinical correlation # 9 Senescent balding (‘senile alopecia’) # 10 Androgenetic alopecia # 11 Telogen effluvium # 12 Trichotillomania # 13 Traction alopecia # 14 Postoperative (pressure-induced) alopecia # 15 Temporal triangular alopecia # 16 Alopecia areata # *17 Psoriatic alopecia # 18 Syphilitic alopecia # 19 Non-scarring alopecia from systemic lupus erythematosus # 20 Loose anagen hair syndrome # 21 Central centrifugal scarring alopecia # 22 Lichen planopilaris # 23 Frontal fibrosing alopecia # *24 Neoplastic disorders causing alopecia # *25 Alopecia in the immunosuppressed patient # *26 Hereditary disorders with alopecia # *27 Radiation induced alopecia # 28 Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (discoid lupus erythematosus) # 29 Brocq’s alopecia (pseudopelade of Brocq) and ‘burnt out’ scarring alopecia # 30 Acne keloidalis (folliculitis keloidalis) # 31 Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp (perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens) # 32 Tufted folliculitis # 33 Tinea capitis # 34 Aplasia cutis congenital of the scalp # 35 Overview of hair shaft disorders # *Glossary of hair pathology terms [* indicates new to 2E]