Inflamed skin nodules and hair loss (alopecia) on the scalp in an adult male patient with dissecting folliculitis, also known as perifolliculitis capi


Inflamed skin nodules and hair loss (alopecia) on the scalp in an adult male patient with dissecting folliculitis, also known as perifolliculitis capitus abscedens et suffodiens. Folliculitis is a bacterial infection of the hair follicules forming nodules which in this case suppurate, join up, scar the skin, and progress to abscesses.


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