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Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp
Author(s) -
PYE R.J.,
PEACHEY R.D.G.,
BURTON J.L.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1979.tb05581.x
Subject(s) - scalp , medicine , dermatology , atrophy , scarring alopecia , antibiotics , inflammation , pathology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
SUMMARY We report six patients with a previously undescribed but characteristic pustular dermatosis confined to the scalp. All the patients were elderly women who developed chronic, extensive, pustular, crusted and occasionally eroded lesions of the scalp which produced scarring alopecia. Investigations were essentially negative and skin biopsies showed only non‐specific changes of atrophy and chronic inflammation, sometimes with increased plasma cells in the infiltrate. The condition did not respond to antibioties, but was suppressed by potent topical steroids.