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Also called cicatricial alopecia, the condition causes permanent hair loss after the immune system attacks and destroys the follicles.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024
Other Black women are often diagnosed with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia — a “scarring, permanent, destructive” type of alopecia that can “destroy the hair follicles,” Singh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
But some researchers have shifted focus to central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, female pattern hair loss and stress—all of which consider factors outside of styling that play a role in hair loss, such as family history.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2020
Hypertrophy of cicatricial tissue resembling keloid, possibly true keloid.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
This formation of a cicatricial tissue demands further recognition when the termination of inflammation is considered.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
