Frontal fibrosing alopecia and ulerythema ophryogenes as two entites that can transist one into another

Abstract

The authors report two clinical cases of progressive hair loss in frontoparietal area of the scalp accompanied by a total loss of eyebrows that occurred in mother and daughter. They are diagnosed with scarring alopecia which is a condition described in a wide group of diseases that cause diagnostic and classification problems. The symptoms that occurred in presented patients are characteristic for frontal fibrosing alopecia, a disease histologically similar to lichen planopilaris, typically appearing in women at postmenopausal age, and ulerythema ophryogenes, one of the keratosis follicular disorders that appears in early infancy and has familial occurrence. The authors hypothesize that these two diseases have much in common and are likely to evolve one into another.

Piccardi-Lassueur-Graham-Little syndrome associated with frontal fibrosing alopecia and lichen planus pigmentosus

“…Piccardi-Lassueur-Graham-Little syndrome associated with frontal fibrosing alopecia and lichen planus pigmentosus was diagnosed. Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a primary lymphocytic scarring alopecia with a distinctive clinical pattern of progressive frontotemporal hairline recession and eyebrow loss that preferentially affects the postmenopausal women [3]. It's association with PLGLS still rarely described and uncommon.…”