title: A case of loose anagen syndrome in an African American girl.
abstract: We present the case of 7-year-old African American girl with loose anagen syndrome. Although this is a common cause of hair loss in Caucasian children, and there have been reports of cases occurring in dark-skinned children of North African and Middle Eastern descent, to our knowledge there have been no cases reported in black children of sub-Saharan African ancestry. We present this case to broaden the differential diagnosis of hair loss in African Americans.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Agi
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058247:Loose Anagen Hair Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000473:pathology