Trichotillomania preceding central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia in a pediatric patient
Ananya Eeraveni, Adena E. Rosenblatt · 2026
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Ananya Eeraveni and Adena E. Rosenblatt report a child whose hair-pulling disorder preceded a rare scarring hair loss. Their 2026 case concerns an 11-year-old boy first seen with an enlarging frontal scalp patch, suspected to reflect trichotillomania, a repetitive hair-pulling disorder. Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, a scarring loss starting at the scalp crown, mainly affects middle-aged and older women of African descent and is rare in children.
Over five years, the boy's loss became diffuse and patchy despite months of clobetasol treatment, and family history included hair loss in his mother and paternal grandmother. Only about eight pediatric cases had been reported, all in Black children. The case urges dermatologists to watch children with patchy loss for evolving scarring disease, since early scarring changes management and prognosis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ananya Eeraveni, Adena E. Rosenblatt |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |