A multicenter descriptive analysis of 270 men with frontal fibrosing alopecia and lichen planopilaris in the United States

James T Pathoulas; Kelly E Flanagan; Chloe J Walker; Maya S Collins; Shaheir Ali; Isabel M Pupo Wiss; George Cotsarelis; Heather Milbar; Kathie Huang; Arash Mostaghimi; Deborah Scott; Jane J Han; Karen J Lee; Maria K Hordinsky; Ronda S Farah; Gretchen Bellefeuille; Ora Raymond; Wilma Bergfeld; Geraldine Ranasinghe; Jerry Shapiro; Kristen I Lo Sicco; Daniel Gutierrez; Justin Ko; Paradi Mirmirani; Natasha Mesinkovska; Katerina L Yale; Lynne J Goldberg; Antonella Tosti; Eran C Gwillim; Carolyn Goh; Maryanne M Senna

doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2022.10.060

A multicenter descriptive analysis of 270 men with frontal fibrosing alopecia and lichen planopilaris in the United States

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2023 Apr;88(4):937-939. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.10.060. Epub 2022 Nov 15.

Authors

James T Pathoulas¹, Kelly E Flanagan¹, Chloe J Walker¹, Maya S Collins¹, Shaheir Ali¹, Isabel M Pupo Wiss¹, George Cotsarelis², Heather Milbar², Kathie Huang³, Arash Mostaghimi³, Deborah Scott³, Jane J Han⁴, Karen J Lee⁴, Maria K Hordinsky⁵, Ronda S Farah⁵, Gretchen Bellefeuille⁵, Ora Raymond⁵, Wilma Bergfeld⁶, Geraldine Ranasinghe⁶, Jerry Shapiro⁷, Kristen I Lo Sicco⁷, Daniel Gutierrez⁷, Justin Ko⁸, Paradi Mirmirani⁹, Natasha Mesinkovska¹⁰, Katerina L Yale¹⁰, Lynne J Goldberg¹¹, Antonella Tosti¹², Eran C Gwillim¹², Carolyn Goh¹³, Maryanne M Senna¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁶ Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁷ Department of Dermatology, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York.
⁸ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
⁹ Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, Vallejo, California.
¹⁰ Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
¹¹ Department of Dermatology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹² Department of Dermatology, University of Miami Health System, Miami, Florida.
¹³ Department of Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
¹⁴ Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: msenna@partners.org.

PMID: 36396001
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.10.060

No abstract available

Keywords: AGA; FFA; LPP; MPHL; PHL; alopecia; androgenetic alopecia; autoimmune; beard loss; body hair; cicatricial; cicatricial alopecia; dermatology; eyebrows; facial hair; fibrosing; fibrosis; frontal fibrosing alopecia; hair; hair loss; hair loss in men; hair specialists; itch; lichen planopilaris; loss; male pattern hair loss; men; misdiagnosis; multicenter; pattern hair loss; pruritus; retrospective review; scalp itch; scalp symptoms; scarring; scarring alopecia; sideburns; specialty hair clinic; sunscreen.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Alopecia* / epidemiology
Alopecia* / pathology
Fibrosis
Humans
Lichen Planus* / complications
Lichen Planus* / epidemiology
Lichen Planus* / pathology
Male
Scalp / pathology
United States / epidemiology

Supplementary concepts

Lichen planus follicularis