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A 23-Year-Old Girl with White Hair from Birth

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Clinical Cases in Pigmentary Disorders

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A 23-year-old girl came to our dermatology office for her white forelock since her birth seeking for treatment. Her mother had the same presentation.

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  1. Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Seyyede Zeinab Azimi & Alireza Firooz

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  1. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

    Torello Lotti

  2. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

    Michael Tirant

  3. Department of Dermatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Davinder Parsad

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Azimi, S.Z., Firooz, A. (2020). A 23-Year-Old Girl with White Hair from Birth. In: Lotti, T., Tirant, M., Parsad, D. (eds) Clinical Cases in Pigmentary Disorders. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50823-4_7

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