Weathering of hair in trichoteiromania.
A 74-year-old woman presented with an 18-month history of broken vertex scalp hairs as a consequence of chronic rubbing. Light microscopy of the 1-2 cm hairs demonstrated distal brush-like splitting. Education and behavioural therapy were instituted. After 4 months of reduced rubbing of the vertex scalp hairs, the hairs re-grew with no evidence of persistent hair shaft abnormality.
Banky
Jeremy P
JP
Department of Dermatology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Headington, Oxford, UK.
Sheridan
Adam T
AT
Dawber
Rodney P R
RP
D000368:Aged; D000505:Alopecia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012535:Scalp; D014256:Trichotillomania / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy