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An experimental induction of the dysplastic‐dystrophic anagen‐hair‐root condition
Author(s) -
CHAPMAN D.M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1991.tb00373.x
Subject(s) - root (linguistics) , medicine , philosophy , linguistics
Summary When ensheathed or experimentally desheathed well‐formed anagen chest hairs are carefully pulled through a constriction, a range of deformations of the soft bulbar and suprabulbar regions can give rise to so‐called dysplastic and dystrophic roots. It is claimed that these deformations arise in a similar manner during extraction of hair from the skin and that these deformations usually represent artefacts; furthermore, it is concluded that only by viewing thick sections of skin can one circumvent these artefacts.