Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia
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central-centrifugal-cicatricial-alopecia-247-2138950
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Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia
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Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), is a type of alopecia first noticed in African Americans in the 1950s and reported by LoPresti et al. in 1968 as a result of application of petrolatum followed by a stove-heated iron comb. The original theory was that the hot petrolatum would travel down to the hair root, burn the follicle, and after repetitive injury scarring would result. Later CCCA was realized to affect men and women without a history significant for use of such styling techni
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Medical condition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_centrifugal_cicatricial_alopecia
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2022-09-06T23:45:19Z
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