‘A detective look’ at hair biopsies from African‐American patients

Background  A patient’s ethnicity can be an important clue in the diagnosis of scarring alopecia as some disorders such as traction alopecia (TA) and central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) are more prevalent in or exclusive to African‐Americans.

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