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Monilethrix and Pseudo-Monilethrix

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Hair and Hair Diseases

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The name is derived from monile (Lat.) = necklace and thrix (Gk.) = hair to indicate a resemblance to a string of beads or a necklace (Fig. 1).

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Steglitz, The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, FR Germany

    Constantin E. Orfanos

  2. Department of Dermatology, University of Nijmegen, NL-6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Rudolf Happle

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Bentley-Phillips, B. (1990). Monilethrix and Pseudo-Monilethrix. In: Orfanos, C.E., Happle, R. (eds) Hair and Hair Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74612-3_16

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