Alopecia areata: Ikeda's classification of Egyptian patients

In this work, a group of 92 patients [57 females 35 males] with alopecia areata were subjected to a full history taking and a thorough general and dermatological examinations in an attempt to study the incidence and pattern of the disease in Egyptian patients according to Ikeda's classification. The results of this study showed that 80 patients could classified according to Ikeda's classification and the remaining 12 showed overlapping of Ikeda's types. On longer follow up overlapping group, which showed intermediate features among Ikeda's types would prove to be correctly classified into the classical types of Ikeda. The results proved also that many of the distinctions drawn by Ikeda are valid