Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research
Open Access

Trichoscopy for common hair loss disorder

4^th International Conference and Expo on Cosmetology & Trichology

June 22-24, 2015 Philadelphia, USA

Hanieh Erdmann

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Clin Exp Dermatol Res

Abstract :

Dermatoscopy of the scalp is termed as trichoscopy. Using a simple dermatoscop in the office will make the diagnosis of some complicated hair loss cases easy by knowing the characteristic trichoscopic features of common hair loss diseases. Black dots, exclamation mark hairs, yellow dots and short vellus hairs can be seen easily by an expert even if the clinic is showing androgenetic alopecia. In an active trichotillomania multiple broken hairs differing in length and shape will be observed. Trichoscopy helps mainly differential diagnosis of hair and scalp disease, but may be used as a device to follow up and monitoring the activity of the hair disorder.