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. 2022 Mar 17;23:13. doi: 10.1186/s12865-022-00486-4

Table 2.

Dermoscopic findings of alopecia areata patients

Patchy AA AT/AU P value
Patients number 24 26
Black dots (%)
Absent 2 (8.3) 3 (11.5) 1.000
Present 22 (91.7) 23 (88.5)
Exclamation mark (%)
Absent 4 (16.7) 4 (15.4) 1.000
Present 20 (83.3) 22 (84.6)
Broken hair (%)
Absent 5 (20.8) 7 (26.9) 0.863
Present 19 (79.2) 19 (73.1)
Yellow dots (%)
Absent 23 (95.8) 20 (76.9) 0.129
Present 1 (4.2) 6 (23.1)
Vellus hair (%)
Absent 23 (95.8) 21 (80.8) 0.229
Present 1 (4.2) 5 (19.2)

*P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant