This exciting colloquium was spearheaded by the Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (C.A.R.F.). In this article, clinical aspects of six of the more common types of primary cicatricial ...

Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) is a type of scarring alopecia (hair loss) that causes patches of hair loss that start on the top of the head and spread outward. It is a common ...

Cicatricial or scarring alopecia comprise chronic inflammatory hair disorders that result in permanent hair loss from the destruction of hair follicles that are replaced with fibrous scar tissue.

The image features hair follicles from an epidermal tail sheet of EGFR deficient mice at the onset of scarring alopecia.

2005). This uncommon condition of adults is marked by a triad of patchy scarring hair loss of the scalp, nonscarring alopecia of the axillae and pubic area, and follicular papules with spinous ...