Primary Cicatricial Alopecia: a Clinical & Histopathological Descriptive Study

This is a descriptive clinicopathological study (review of cases) that was carried out in the outpatient clinic of dermatology and venereology in Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital in Baghdad from December 2010 to April 2011. Forty-two patients with cicatricial alopecia were included in this study with age ranged from 17 to 62years with a mean age 35.07±11.23years. Primary cicatricial alopecia was seen in fourteen male patients (33.3%) and twenty-eight females (66.7%) making female to male ratio 2:1. Discoid lupus erythematosus was diagnosed in 17 patients (40.5%) with female to male ratio 4.6:1, their age ranged from 18-49 (32.2±8.44), lichen planopilaris was diagnosed in 12 patients (28.6%) with female to male ratio2:1, their age ranged from 17-62 years (41.613.29), pseudopelade of Brocq was diagnosed in 8 patients (19%) with female to male ratio 1.6:1, their age ranged from 22-53 years (33.7±9.53), folliculitis decalvans was diagnosed in 3 patients (7.1%), their age ranged from 21-31years (24.67±5.51), acne keloidalis nuchae was diagnosed in 2 male patients (4.8%), age ranged from 31-51(41±14.14).