Long-term hair repigmentation following a hair transplant for frontal scarring alopecia.
A 57-year-old woman developed repigmentation of white donor hairs 9 months after undergoing hair transplantation for an area of frontal scarring alopecia present since childhood. The hairs have remained repigmented more than 2 years post transplant. We discuss possible mechanisms underlying long-term follicular repigmentation of white hairs.
Dinh
Hope V
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Department of Dermatology, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
Sinclair
Rodney
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Martinick
Jennifer
J
D000505:Alopecia / Q000601:surgery*; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006200:Hair Color; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000254:growth & development / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012535:Scalp / Q000601:surgery; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous