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A girl presented with a frizzy lustreless hair that is impossible to comb. Light microscopy excluded other types of structural hair defect and confirmed a rare anomaly of the hair shaft that improves with age.
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El-Darouti, M.A., Al-Ali, F.M. (2019). A Child with Frizzy Uncombable Hair. In: Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21855-3_23
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