Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia Associated with Oral Erosive Lichen Planus: Two Locations, One Disease

Citation: Toso F, Cortese A, Fiorillo G, Costanzo A, Borroni RG. Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia Associated with Oral Erosive Lichen Planus: Two Locations, One Disease. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2023;13(2):e2023096. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1302a96

Accepted: July 27, 2023; Published: April 2023

Copyright: ©2023 Toso et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

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Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.

Corresponding author: Francesco Toso, MD, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Dermatology Unit, Humanitas Research Hospital – IRCCS, Via Rita Levi Montalcini, 4 20090 Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy. E-mail: francesco.toso@humanitas.it

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Keywords : alopecia, lichen, dermopathology, dermoscopy

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