Alopecia Mucinosa

1 April 1959

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology

Vol. 79 (4) , 395-406
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1959.01560160013003

Abstract

Alopecia mucinosa is a dermatosis recently described by Pinkus.¹Clinically it appears as single or multiple, slightly erythematous, raised plaques, associated with loss of hair in the sites involved. Pathologically, the changes are in the pilosebaceous apparatus; they are easily recognized and diagnosed. After Dr. Pinkus presented his paper at the International Congress of Dermatology at Stockholm,²Dr. Szodoray, of Budapest, said he had published a similar case with Lehner, in 1939, and also referred to a case published by Kreibich, in 1926. Kreibich³described a generalized patchy eruption in a 20-year-old white youth, under the title "Mucin in a Skin Disease." The distinctive histopathological feature was the presence of cystic spaces and mucin within the pilosebaceous follicle. There was a perifollicular infiltrate with numerous lymphocytes and occasionally some mucinous material. He believed that the mucinous change preceded or possibly occurred at

Keywords

ALOPECIA

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