Alopecia mucinosa

As Mucinosis follicularis ( Syn: Alopecia mucinosa, Mucophanerosis introfollicularis et seboglanularis, Pinkus alopecia, verschleimende follicular ) is a disease of dermatology is known that affects the hair follicles, which are palpable, which is why it colloquially known as keratosis pilaris or scorbutic goosebumps is.

Clinically takes the Mucinosis follicularis focally with hair loss and papules, which delineated well, flat sublime, are red and sometimes itchy. It usually occurs in the cranial half of the body. The disease was first described in 1904 by Karl Kreibich. The etiology of the disease is unknown, there are histological changes of the affected hair follicles. The prognosis of skin appearance is different, ranging from spontaneous regression to long -term spread over the entire body surface (depending on the root cause ). Therapeutically, the treatment of an underlying disease required (if known), corticoidhaltige Externa be symptomatic example used.

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• Disease in dermatology
• Disease in internal medicine