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Successful treatment of female‐pattern hair loss with spironolactone in a 9‐year‐old girl
Author(s) -
Yazdabadi Anosha,
Green Jack,
Sinclair Rod
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2009.00517.x
Subject(s) - spironolactone , medicine , girl , scalp , hair loss , cabello , dermatology , hair disease , surgery , psychology , developmental psychology , heart failure
A 9‐year‐old prepubertal girl with female pattern hair loss treated with spironolactone 100 mg orally per day had objective improvement demonstrated by regrowth observed clinically and on comparison of pre‐ and post‐treatment stereotactic scalp photographs taken 6 months apart.