folliculitis
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Folliculitis is the infection and inflammation of one or more hair follicles. The condition may occur anywhere on hair-covered skin. The rash may appear as pimples that come to white tips on the face, chest, back, arms, legs, buttocks, or head.
Key facts
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- Folliculitis
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- Folliculitis, single lesion
- Medical condition (new).field
- Dermatology
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Research
4,152 papers- Folliculitis: recognition and management.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2004
- Folliculitis decalvans.Dermatologic therapy · 2008
- [Folliculitis with cicatricial alopecia].Annales de dermatologie et de venereologie · 2006
- [Folliculitis].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 1999
- Facial bacterial infections: folliculitis.Clinics in dermatology · 2014
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Isolated folliculitis.jpg
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- Commons category
- Folliculitis
- health specialty
- dermatology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C94408
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:4409
- ICD-9-CM
- 704.8
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- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Complications
- Causes
- Bacterial
- Fungal
- Mites
- Viral
- Noninfectious
- Treatment
- See also
- References
- External links
Folliculitis is the infection and inflammation of one or more hair follicles. The condition may occur anywhere on hair-covered skin. The rash may appear as pimples that come to white tips on the face, chest, back, arms, legs, buttocks, or head.
Although acne can often involve superficial infection and inflammation of some hair follicles, the condition of those follicles is usually not called folliculitis, as that term is usually reserved for the separate set of disease entities comprising infected and inflamed hair follicles with causes other than acne.
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