tretinoin and Hair-Diseases

Topics: Administration, Cutaneous; Administration, Oral; Child; Child, Preschool; Dietary Supplements; Drug Therapy, Combination; Female; Hair; Hair Diseases; Humans; Hydroxycholecalciferols; Minoxidil; Treatment Outcome; Tretinoin

Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Clobetasol; Dermatologic Agents; Female; Glucocorticoids; Hair Diseases; Humans; Skin; Tretinoin

Topics: Administration, Topical; Adult; Biopsy, Needle; Ectodermal Dysplasia; Facial Dermatoses; Follicular Cyst; Follow-Up Studies; Hair Diseases; Humans; Male; Sweat Gland Diseases; Tretinoin

Topics: Adult; Cysts; Hair Diseases; Humans; Male; Tretinoin

A mother and daughter with epidermolytic hyperkeratosis were treated with two different synthetic retinoids at different times. Both patients exhibited the previously unreported side effect of increased curliness of scalp hair. Light microscopic examination revealed pili torti during the administration of isotretinoin. Both patients also experienced a better therapeutic response to and more hair loss with etretinate than with isotretinoin.

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Female; Hair; Hair Diseases; Humans; Isotretinoin; Keratosis; Tretinoin

Topics: Adolescent; Dermatitis, Atopic; Etretinate; Female; Hair Diseases; Humans; Ichthyosis; Syndrome; Tretinoin

Following Cobalt-60 irradiation for a left frontotemporal tumor, a 61-year-old woman developed comedones on the forehead. These changes responded to conventional acne therapy with retinoic acid. Multiple acneigenic factors were implicated in the pathogenesis of her lesions.

Topics: Brain Neoplasms; Cobalt Radioisotopes; Female; Hair Diseases; Humans; Middle Aged; Palliative Care; Radioisotope Teletherapy; Sebaceous Glands; Tretinoin

Topics: Child; Cysts; Female; Hair Diseases; Humans; Tretinoin