Folliculitis Decalvans in Father and Son – Genes, Environment or Both?

Citation: Neema S, Vendhan S, Vasudevan B, Krishnan L. Folliculitis Decalvans in Father and Son – Genes, Environment or Both? Dermatol Pract Concept. 2023;13(2):e2023100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1302a100

Accepted: September 15, 2023; Published: April 2023

Copyright: ©2023 Neema 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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Competing interests: None.

Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.

Corresponding author: Dr Shekhar Neema, MD, FEBDV, Assoc Prof (Dermatology), Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India. Email: shekharadvait@gmail.com

Abstract

Keywords : folliculitis decalvans, familial, genetic, trichoscopy

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