Wigs are commonly used to cover baldness. A 28 year old male presented with itchy oozy eythematous lesions on the forehead where the wig was afixed to the scalp. Patch testing with indian standard seies and dental series revealed positivity to 2-hydroxy ethyl meta acrylate present in superglue. We report this case for its clinical rarity.

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Alopecia areata is characterized by patchy hair loss involving the scalp, eyelashes, and beard. The disease may at times lead to complete baldness of the scalp (alopecia totalis) or of the entire body (alopecia universalis). Alopecia totalis is usually resistant to therapy. We report two cases of alopecia totalis treated with turban psoralen with sunlight exposure (PUVASOL).

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Cicatricial (scarring) alopecias form a group of disorders in which permanent hair loss results from replacement of follicles by fibrosis or hyalinized collagen. The aim was to find the correlation between clinical, histopathological and direct immunofluorescence findings in cicatricial alopecias<span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A total of 20 cases were included in our study. Two 4mm punch biopsies were taken for haematoxylin and eosin (H &amp; E) and DIF respectively. Vertical and horizontal section were cut and stained with haematoxylin and eosin.<strong></strong></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> After histopathological examination 8 (40%) were confirmed as LPP, 6 (30%) as DLE, 2 (10%) as folliculitis decalvans and 1 (5%) each of acne keloidalis, trichotillomania, CTCL and morphea. Out of 8 confirmed cases of LPP 4 (50%) were positive for direct immunofluorescence and in 6 confirmed cases of DLE 4 (67%) were positive for immunofluorescence<span lang="EN-IN">. </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> There was no statistical significance regarding the correlation between clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescence findings<span lang="EN-IN">.</span></p>

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