Fractured hairs

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 Author(s): Lidia Rudnicka, Anna Waskiel Burnat

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Description	This chapter describes the trichoscopy of fractured hair shafts (dermoscopy of hair and scalp)
Author(s)	Anna Waskiel Burnat · Lidia Rudnicka
Responsible author	Anna Waskiel Burnat → send e-mail
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Status update	March 20, 2019
Status by	Ralph P. Braun

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Trichoptilosis

• Longitudinal splitting of the distal end of hair shaft
• Unspecific manifestation of a defect in hair shaft structure

Trichoschisis or trichoclasis

• clean transverse fracture across the hair shaft
• Trichothiodystrophy, secondary to conditions that weaken the hair shaft

Broken hairs

• Irregular transverse fracture across the hair shaft
• Trichotillomania, traction alopecia, alopecia areata, tinea capitis

Golf tee hairs

• A hair with a concave distal end
• Specific for Netherton syndrome