Uncombable-hair syndrome.
Four children had short, unmanageable, pale blond hair. They had no associated abnormalities and no family histories of abnormal hair. Light microscopy of the hair was normal in three patients, with pili torti present in the fourth. Electron microscopy of hairs from all four children revealed longitudinal grooves in the hair shaft, diagnostic of uncombable-hair syndrome.
Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD 21205.
W L
WL
Matis
H
H
Baden
R
R
Green
S
S
Boiko
A W
AW
Lucky
L
L
Hornstein
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M
Ashraf
A F
AF
Hood
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006201:Hair Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male