Alopecia Mucinosa

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Abstract
The following case report is felt worthy of presentation as a hitherto undescribed clinical form of alopecia mucinosa consisting of a grouped papular eruption in addition to areas of alopecia. In his original description of this disease, Pinkus1 reported six cases in which the clinical picture consisted primarily of inflammatory plaques and areas of alopecia. In Lund's case in this group, an accentuation of hair follicles within the area of alopecia was noted. In the case described much earlier by Lehner and Szodoray2 as "inflammatory follicular edema," keratotic plugs were present in follicles with the inflammatory plaques. Braun-Falco3 reported two cases of this condition which he has called primary or idiopathic ``mucophanerosis intrafollicularis et seboglandularis'' presenting inflammatory plaques, and a case of mycosis fungoides and one of eosinophilic reticulosis showing similar pathologic changes. Grouped small papules as seen in this case

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