"This color-illustrated clinical atlas and reference text comprehensively covers the enormous ranges in hair and its growth that often lead to great distress in patients and that may indicate underlying systemic disease - endocrine, genetic, or metabolic - or nutritional or pyschiatric disorders. The atlas contains over 240 color illustrations accompanied by concise clinical information on diagnosis and practical management as well as recent advances in medical knowledge and understanding of each disorder. In nine chapters it illustrates the basic physiology of hair growth, congenital and hair shaft abnormalities, including cosmetic damage to hair, loss and overgrowth of hair, and abnormalities of the scalp, including inflammatory, infective and malignant skin disease. This is an especially valuable atlas for education, reference, diagnosis and management for primary care physicians as well as dermatologists called upon to recognize, diagnose and manage the numerous and widespread hair and scalp diseases that cause distress to so many patients."--BOOK JACKET.