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Pili torti and sensorineural hearing loss. A follow-up of Bjørnstad’s original patients and a review of the literature Volume 10, numéro 2, March 2000

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Department of Dermatology, Ullevål Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway, Department of Dermatology, University of Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Bispebjerg Bakke 23, DK-2400 Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Page(s) : 91-7
  • Année de parution : 2000

Hair shaft abnormalities are found in a number of syndromes involving tissues and organs of ectodermal origin; nails, teeth, sweat glands [1-4]. Some hair shaft abnormalities are pathognomonic for certain diseases; the most typical example being trichorrhexis invaginata, or bamboo hairs, which is almost always associated with ichthyosis linearis circumflexa and atopy in the Netherton syndrome [5, 6]. Pili torti, hairs twisted around their [...]