These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Studies on monilethrix].
    Author: Lubach D, Triantos N.
    Journal: Hautarzt; 1979 May; 30(5):253-6. PubMed ID: 447529.
    Abstract:
    Monilethrix is a disorder of the hair manifested by fragile, beaded hair and baldness. The four children described below showed no regulary rhythm of node and internode formation. Light microscopy supported the hypothesis that periodic inhibition of keratin synthesis explains the production of the constriction. Scanning electron microscopy shows longitudinal ridging of the internodes in monilethrix and distinctive surface irregularity. Chromatography of urine for argininosuccinic acid do not support the theory that this hair abnormality is a metabolic defect.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]