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Trichoscopy in Diagnosis of Immunobollous Diseases

NCT03478072 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2018-07-30

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Summary

Autoimmune bullous diseases are a variety of skin diseases that are characterized by the presence of bullae or blisters. Most of these diseases are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. They are classified according to the site of blister formation into intraepidermal as pemphigus valgaris and foliaceus, and subepidermal as bullous pemphigoid and dermatitis herpetiformis. These lesions commonly affect the scalp and manifest as blisters, erosions and crustations.

Trichoscopy (hair and scalp dermoscopy) is a non-invasive technique in which either a handheld dermoscope or a digital videodermoscope can be used to visualize hair and scalp structures. The method has well-established position as an ancillary tool in the diagnosis of many disorders such as, tinea capitis, alopecia areata, androgenetic alopecia, discoid lupus erythematosus, lichen planopilaris, folliculitis decalvans and other hair and scalp diseases. Few studies have reported that immunobullous diseases present characteristic trichoscopic patterns. So, Trichoscopy can be used as a rapid in-office preliminary diagnostic tool in the differential diagnosis of these diseases.

Conditions

  • IMMUNOBULLOUS DISEASES

Interventions

DEVICE

trichoscopy

hair and scalp dermoscopy) is a non-invasive technique in which either a handheld dermoscope or a digital videodermoscope can be used to visualize hair and scalp structures

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • tasbeeh salah

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nagwa Easa, prof · prof

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-01
Primary Completion
2019-12-01
Completion
2020-06-01

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