Pattern hair loss
One of the main causes of hair loss in case of men.
Non scarring hair loss
Non scarring hair loss is a potentially invertible one which takes place during various disease entities.
Telogen effluvium
A passing, potentially invertible hair loss caused by a sudden and one-step change of much hair from the growth phase (anagen) to a resting stage of hair (telogen).
Alopecia areata
Chronic disease of possible autoimmune background. It is characterized by a sudden, limited hair loss in a form of round, oval, single or multiple focus of different sizes.
Syphilitic alopecia
A hair loss characteristic for secondary stage of syphilis – sexually transmitted infection.
Trichotillomania
Idiopathic, mechanical hair loss, occurring most often among teenage girls.
Cicatricial alopecia
Cicatricial alopecia is caused by a chronic inflammatory condition in the area of connective tissue hair sheaths. It leads to the creation of a scar and a permanent hair loss. Taking into account a nonstationary and nonreversible character of this disease, it is absolutely vital to provide a fast and proper clinical diagnosis and adding correct pharmacological treatment leading to the inhibition of this process.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Autoimmune affliction during which diffuse alopecia can appear.
Discoid lupus erythematous (DLE)
A disease in which well-defined, erythematous-sclerotic focuses with clear follicular hyperkeratosis on surface are located on exposed places and scalp.
Lichen acuminatus
It is a chronic disease, in which apart from a typical location within smooth skin and mucosa, the changes can be located on hairy scalp as well.
Frontal fibrosing alopecia
It is a specific form of lichen acuminatus of hairy scalp.
Folliculitis decalvans
Sycosis leading to the destruction of connective tissue hair sheaths.
Acne inversa
An affliction which involves connective tissue hair sheaths in a disease process and in a clinical picture inflammatory tumours and traction scars.
Other diseases of scalp
Tinea capitis
A disease in which zoonotic fungal infections of high contagiousness are responsible for sickness process of hair.
Psoriasis
It is one of most common skin diseases marked by a chronic and recurrent course.
Seborrhoecic dermatitis
It is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis. It applies more often to men and it has its beginning after the period of adolescence.