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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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Monilethrix: One step more on the ladder of cytogenetics
Ashish Singh1, S Ambujam1, S Srikanth1, AN Uma2
1 Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
2 Department of Anatomy, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India
Correspondence Address:
S Ambujam
Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pillaiyarkuppam, Pondicherry - 607 402
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-7753.66907
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Monilethrix is one of the hair shaft abnormalities with increased fragility of hair. Here we describe a ten-year-old girl with a history of hair loss and breakage of hair since three months of age, associated with keratosis pilaris along with an abnormal microscopic finding of a hair shaft. A cytogenetic study of the patient showed an unexpectedly high degree of Acrocentric association. |
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