Table 1.

Evaluation checklist of trichoscopic features of primary cicatricial alopecias in this study

Follicular features	Follicular and interfollicular features
Follicular openings	Pink–white appearance
Absence of follicular openings	Yellow structureless areas
Yellow dots	Hyperpigmentation pattern
Yellow dots	Honeycomb pattern
“3D”-structured yellow dots	Brown scattered pattern
Large keratotic yellow dots	Crust formation
Black dots	Scaling
White dots	Interfollicular scaling
Fibrotic white dots	Perifollicular scaling
Pinpoint white dots	Peripilar cast
Blue-grey dots	Yellowish tubular scaling
“Target” pattern	Pustule
“Speckled” pattern	Blood vessels
Follicular red dots	Red dots
Perifollicular erythema	Arborizing red lines
Hair shafts	Elongated vascular loops
Absence of vellus hairs	Pinpoint vessels with whitish halo
Short vellus hairs
Regrowing hairs
Broken hairs
Tufted hairs
Pili torti