Table 1.
Summary of the demographic, clinical, dermatoscopic and pathologic features of 26 patients with LPP
| Males | 17 (65%) |
| Females | 9 (35%) |
| Age range, years | 22–65 |
| Clinical findings | |
| Males | Asymptomatic or slightly pruritic scalp MPHL ranging from stage II to VI (Norwood-Hamilton classification) Variable scaling and redness |
| Females | Asymptomatic or slightly pruritic scalp Christmas tree pattern hair thinning (Ludwig type I or II) Variable scaling and redness |
| History of hair transplantation | None |
| Patients requesting hair transplantation | |
| Males | 14/17 |
| Females | 1/9 |
| Dermatoscopic findings | Hair shaft variability >20% on the frontal, parietal and vertex scalp |
| Erythema | |
| Groups of 2–4 hairs emerging as one stem from a single ostium in the same area of the variability | |
| Peripilar casts | |
| Interfollicular scaling | |
| Focal absence of follicular ostia | |
| Pathologic findings | Compound follicular structures |
| Perifollicular lichenoid infiltrate at the | |
| upper level | |
| Perifollicular fibrosis | |
| Partial loss of sebaceous glands | |
| Follicular miniaturization |