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Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia in Men: A Review of the Literature

2025-02-05

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<h4>Background: </h4> Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a primary cicatricial alopecia, initially described in postmenopausal women but increasingly reported in men. The male form remains under-recognised, often misdiagnosed as androgenetic alopecia (AGA) or alopecia areata (AA), particularly in the beard. <h4>Objective:</h4> This review aims to summarise the current literature on the epidemiology, clinical pres...

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Literature Corpus work: b2dd027c-17a2-532c-920c-fea491791ef1
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202502.0341.v1

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