Wake Forest University Health Sciences
The objective of this study is to examine photos of CCCA patients taken before and after treatment to compare treatment outcomes between different treatment groups
Treatment groups that patients will be randomized to include 1) topical steroid plus oral antibiotic group, and topical minoxidil after 8 months 2) topical steroid plus intralesional steroid group and topical minoxidil after 8 months. Both these regimens are used as the first-line treatments by clinicians. The objective of this study is to examine photos of CCCA patients taken before and after treatment to compare treatment outcomes between different treatment groups. In this study, the investigators are looking to determine how standard treatment affects the outcome of central centrifugal ci…
Inclusion Criteria: * African-American women, ages 18-60 years old * with a clinical diagnosis and biopsy-proven CCCA, with Central Scalp Alopecia Scale severity 1 through 4 will be included in this study * These subjects will be seen and treated in Wake Forest Baptist Health Dermatology Outpatient Clinic Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with other forms of hair loss in addition to CCCA will be excluded * Other patients to be excluded are those with other forms of inflammatory scalp disease (with the exception of mild seborrheic dermatitis) * patients who have had topical treatment for CCCA w…
applied once daily - 18 month duration of the study
Intralesional Steroid Injection, 7.5mg/cc. max dose of 3 cc. Scalp injections will be administered every 6-8 weeks, for a total of 8 injections.
oral antibiotic twice daily for 6 months
5% solution or foam started after month 8
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