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Kim, Choe, Park, Lee, and Cho: Two Cases of Tufted Hair Folliculitis
Case Report

Annals of Dermatology 2002; 14(4): 239-242.

Published online: 15 March 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5021/ad.2002.14.4.239

Two Cases of Tufted Hair Folliculitis

Mi-Yeon Kim, Hee Chang Choe, Hyun Jeong Park, Jun Young Lee, Baik Kee Cho

Copyright © The Korean Dermatological Association and The Korean Society for Investigative Dermatology

Abstract

Tufted hair follliculitis is a localized, inflammatory and exudative disease of the scalp characterized by a tufted appearance of the scalp hairs emerging from single follicular openings, and may result in permanent and irreversible scarring alopecia.
We report two cases of tufted hair folliculitis in a 53-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man. They had several areas of scarring alopecia with multiple bundles of hairs emerging from single follicular orifices. Histopathologic findings were typical for tufted hair folliculitis. The patients were treated successively with oral antibiotics and with topical application of clindamycin.

Keywords: Tufted hair folliculitis

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