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Trichorrhexis nodosa

Known as: Clastothrix 
Trichorrhexis nodosa is the formation of nodes along the hair shaft through which breakage readily occurs. It is thus a focal defect in the hair… 
National Institutes of Health

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2004
2004
SummaryAn electron microscopical study of skin from 2 patients with ichthyosis linearis circumflexa and trichorrhexis invaginata… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
BACKGROUND The infant with Netherton syndrome (NS) typically displays a generalized erythroderma covered by fine, translucent… 
1996
1996
The biochemical bases for fragility in most of the rare brittle hair shaft syndromes are unknown. The hypothesis being… 
1974
1974
Skin biopsies from three cases of clinically typical ichthyosis linearis circumflexa Comel with trichorrhexis invaginata and… 
1972
1972
A young man acquired trichorrhexis nodosa during two successive summers. Clinical evidence and scanning electron microscopy of… 
Review
1971
Review
1971
Trichorrhexis invaginata associated with ichthyosis linearis circumflexa occured in a 36-year-old man. Other similar reports are… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Trichorrhexis nodosa is a condition in which individual hairs develop areas where the shaft has split longitudinally into… 
1966
1966
Laboratory apparatus was designed to administer controlled stress by rubbing 53 samples of normal appearing scalp hair, some…