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Dermatology
Hypertrichosis and Hirsutism
Built from Dermatology, 5th Edition

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3 sections · 128 slides
Overview
- What this deck covers
Hypertrichosis
Definitions, classification, and the many causes of excess hair growth
- Defining hypertrichosis
- Three types of hair
- How hypertrichosis is classified
- Generalized hypertrichosis
- Working up generalized hypertrichosis
- Diagnostic approach to generalized hypertrichosis
- Congenital generalized hypertrichosis
- Position effects: genes turned up, not broken
- Genetic syndromes with congenital generalized hypertrichosis
- Hereditary disorders with congenital generalized hypertrichosis
- Hereditary disorders with congenital generalized hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary disorders with congenital generalized hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary disorders with congenital generalized hypertrichosis (continued)
- Intrauterine exposure and other differentials
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis (continued)
- Hereditary diseases and syndromes with regional hypertrichosis (continued)
- Prepubertal hypertrichosis
- Acquired generalized hypertrichosis: drugs
- Drugs that cause hypertrichosis
- Hypertrichosis due to drugs
- Hypertrichosis due to drugs (continued)
- Where oral minoxidil causes hair growth
- Hypertrichosis from oral minoxidil in practice
- Acquired generalized hypertrichosis: systemic disease
- Acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa
- Acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa in practice
- Localized hypertrichosis
- Hamartomas and site-specific congenital forms
- Hypertrichosis cubiti
- Anterior cervical hypertrichosis
- Hereditary hypertrichosis at specific anatomic sites
- Hypertrichosis of the eyebrows and eyelashes
- Hypertrichosis of the eyebrows and eyelashes
- EGFR inhibitor-induced eyelash trichomegaly
- Congenital melanocytic nevi and plexiform neurofibromas
- Becker melanosis (nevus)
- Becker melanosis with marked hypertrichosis
- Becker melanosis: a second example
- Becker nevus syndrome and related findings
- Smooth muscle hamartomas
- Other hamartomas with overlying hypertrichosis
- Nevoid hypertrichosis
- Nevoid hypertrichosis of the scalp
- Secondary nevoid hypertrichosis
- Spinal dysraphism and the hair collar sign
- Localized hypertrichosis in systemic disease
- Facial hypertrichosis in porphyria cutanea tarda
- Porphyria cutanea tarda: a second example
- Acquired localized hypertrichosis: trauma and friction
- Hypertrichosis at a site of friction
- Hairs mimicking hypertrichosis in a pilonidal sinus
- Topical drugs that trigger localized hypertrichosis
- Treating eyelash alopecia with topical latanoprost
- Treating hypertrichosis
Hirsutism
Androgen-driven excess hair in women - epidemiology, causes, workup, and treatment
- Defining hirsutism
- Idiopathic hirsutism with the SAHA syndrome
- Virilization: a more severe sign
- Differences between defeminization and virilization
- How common is hirsutism
- Measuring hirsutism: the mFG score
- The modified Ferriman-Gallwey hirsutism scoring system
- Modified Ferriman-Gallwey scoring diagram, second copy
- Causes worth knowing beyond PCOS
- Where excess androgen can come from
- Classifying the causes of hirsutism
- Classification of types of hirsutism
- Classification of types of hirsutism (continued)
- Classification of types of hirsutism (continued)
- Classification of types of hirsutism (continued)
- Classification of types of hirsutism (continued)
- Idiopathic (constitutional) hirsutism
- Familial hirsutism
- Ovarian hirsutism: an overview
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- The Rotterdam criteria for PCOS
- Hirsutism pattern in PCOS
- PCOS and metabolic risk
- Evaluation and management overview for PCOS
- Ovarian hyperthecosis
- Facial hirsutism due to ovarian hyperthecosis
- Tumoral ovarian hirsutism
- Adrenal hirsutism: an overview
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)
- Adrenal glucocorticoid and androgen synthesis pathway
- Classic versus non-classic CAH
- Tumoral adrenal hirsutism
- Cushing syndrome
- Acromegaly
- Hyperprolactinemia and thyroid disorders
- Insulin-resistance disorders
- Drug-induced hirsutism
- Diagnostic workup: first steps
- Initial screening pathway for premenopausal hirsutism
- Evaluating hyperandrogenemia in a premenopausal woman
- Lab testing in premenopausal women
- Lab testing in postmenopausal women
- When to start treatment
- Systemic agents for hirsutism
- Systemic agents for hirsutism and hyperandrogenism
- Systemic agents for hirsutism and hyperandrogenism (continued)
- First-line therapy: combined oral contraceptives
- Adding an antiandrogen
- Hirsutism response to antiandrogen therapy
- Treatment by clinical scenario
- Hirsutism treatment by clinical scenario
- Topical therapy for facial hirsutism
- Direct hair removal: depilation vs epilation
- Escalating options for unwanted hair
- Photoepilation: the preferred long-term option
- Grading hirsutism severity by Abraham's system
- Abraham's classification of hirsutism
- A practical menu of hair-removal methods
- Methods to reduce unwanted hair
- Hypertrichosis: what to remember
- Hirsutism: what to remember
- References
- References (continued)
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- References (continued)
- Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)