Hair and scalp

Links to DermNet's pages about hair and scalp.

Diseases and conditions

• Acne and acne-like follicular disorders
• Acne necrotica
• Acute hair matting
• African hair practices
• Alopecia areata
• Alopecia from drugs
• Alopecia mucinosa (follicular mucinosis)
• Anagen effluvium
• Aplasia cutis
• Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA)
• Male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)
• Cradle cap (infantile seborrhoeic dermatitis)
• Diffuse alopecia
• Discoid lupus erythematosus
• Ectodermal dysplasia
• Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp
• Female pattern hair loss
• Follicular occlusion syndrome
• Folliculitis
• Folliculitis decalvans
• Frontal fibrosing alopecia
• Folliculitis keloidalis (acne cheloidalis)
• Graham Little syndrome
• Hair dye allergy
• Hair follicle tumours
  • Basaloid follicular hamartoma
  • Fibrofolliculoma
  • Pilar sheath acanthoma
  • Trichofolliculoma
  • Trichoepithelioma
  • Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma
  • Trichoblastoma
  • Trichoblastic fibroma
  • Trichoadenoma
  • Trichilemmoma
  • Trichilemmal cyst (pilar cyst)
  • Proliferating trichilemmal cyst
  • Pilomatricoma
  • Pilomatrix carcinoma
  • Trichoblastic carcinoma
  • Trichilemmal carcinoma
  • Malignant proliferating trichilemmal cyst
• Hair loss
• Hairpieces
• Hair removal techniques
• Hair replacement surgery
• Hair shaft defects
  • Bubble hair
  • Beaded hair/monilethrix
  • Pili torti
  • Bamboo hair / trichorrhexis invaginata
  • Trichorrhexis nodosa
  • Trichothiodystrophy
  • Acquired progressive kinking of hair
  • Loose anagen hair syndrome
  • Ringed hair/pili annulati
  • Pili bifurcati
  • Spun glass hair/pili trianguli et canaliculi
  • Woolly hair
  • Tufted hair/pili multigemini
• Hair shedding
• Head lice
• Hirsutism
• Hypertrichosis
• Hypertrichosis lanuginosa
• Lichen planopilaris
• Male pattern balding
• Pachyonychia congenita
• Pityriasis amiantacea
• Poliosis
• Pseudofolliculitis barbae
• Pseudopelade of Brocq
• Psoriasis of scalp
• Pubic lice
• Scalp folliculitis
• Scalp psoriasis
• Sebaceous naevus
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis
• Shaving bumps
• Short anagen syndrome
• Telogen effluvium
• Tinea capitis (fungal scalp infection)
• Traction alopecia
• Trichoepithelioma
• Trichostasis spinulosa
• Trimethylaminuria

Treatments for hair disorders

• Finasteride
• Minoxidil
• Shampoos
• Electrolysis
• Waxing
• Laser for hair loss