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Extensive patchy alopecia areata
Alopecia areata: beard
Alopecia areata: dermoscopy
A single patch of alopecia areata (AA-patient1)
Dermoscopic image showing normal follicular openings with vellus hairs (AA-patient1)
A single patch of alopecia areata on the vertex (AA-patient2)
Dermoscopic image of alopecia areata showing yellow dots; follicular infundibulae are filled with keratinous material with no hair shafts. Black dots are also presented. (AA-patient2)
Thinning of the hair shaft at the proximal end (blue arrow) with normal thickness at the distal end (red arrow)
Dermoscopic image of alopecia areata presenting with exclamation mark hairs
Dermoscopic image of alopecia areata showing a pigtail hair: short twisted hair representing a regrowing hair
Dermoscopic image of noncicatricial alopecia areata presenting with small, uniform, regularly distributed follicular yellow dots
A trichoscopic image of alopecia areata showing an exclamation mark hair
Dermoscopic image of a patient with dark skin phototype showing honeycomb pattern; white-coloured follicular opening with reticular background.
Dermoscopic image of alopecia areata showing pigment from hair dye
Dermoscopic image of long standing alopecia areata showing Pohl-Pinkus constriction; irregular fusiform narrowings of the hair shaft
Dermoscopic image of the scalp on a female patient with longstanding alopecia areata showing white areas denoting fibrosis
Dermoscopic image of a male patient with alopecia areata showing multiple exclamation mark hairs (denoted by black arrows)
Dermoscopic image of a male patient with alopecia areata showing tapered hair (Red arrow) and regrowing hair (Yellow arrow)
Extensive alopecia areata with retention of grey hairs
Alopecia areata on the lateral scalp (AA-patient3)
Alopecia areata with fine hypopigmented regrowing hairs (AA-patient3)
Alopecia areata showing fine regrowing hairs (AA-patient3)
Alopecia totalis
Patch alopecia areata with poliosis in a 14 year old
Alopecia areata of the top of the scalp
Several patches of alopecia areata on the scalp (AA-patient4)
Extensive patchy alopecia areata (AA-patient4)
Ophiasic pattern alopecia areata (AA-patient5)
Ophiasic pattern alopecia areata (AA-patient5)
Eyebrow loss in alopecia areata
Poliosis in alopecia areata
Yellow dots, black dots, and short hairs
Exclamation mark hairs at edge of patch
Ophiasis pattern of alopecia areata