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Hair and Hair Diseases

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Hair is the subject of this book, including the anatomy of the hair follicle, developmental stages, analyzed by light and electron microscopy, hair ultrastructure, nerve and blood supply, specialized hairs and hair organs, and a review of the present techniques to cultivate hair follicle cells in vitro. In the clinical part several chapters describe the most important diseases and possibilities for treatment. Hair care products and their toxicology are the subject of further sections. Extensive reviews of the antiandrogens, a most important group of drugs influencing hair growth, and of their clinical use in conditions such as androgenetic alopecias and hirsutism are included as well. Finally, surgical techniques for hair transplantation are discussed. This book is a standard textbook for everything pertaining to hair under normal and pathological conditions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Steglitz, The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, FR Germany

    Constantin E. Orfanos

  • Department of Dermatology, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Rudolf Happle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hair and Hair Diseases

  • Editors: Constantin E. Orfanos, Rudolf Happle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74612-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-74614-7Published: 04 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74612-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 1057

  • Topics: Dermatology

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