Prepuberal hypertrichosis

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Classification according to ICD-10
L68.8 Other hypertrichosis
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The präpuberale hypertrichosis is a form of constitutional generalized hypertrichosis with significantly increased body hair. It occurs more frequently in healthy children; the distribution pattern of the terminal hair is gender-unspecific (androgen-independent).

The first description comes from 1950 by the English doctor LR Broster.

root cause

The cause is not known, there is a familial accumulation.

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

  • unusually strong growth of terminal hair
  • Diffuse, non-gender-specific distribution of hair, especially forehead, eyebrows, back, shoulders and on the sides of the arms
  • no further special features

Differential diagnosis

Diseases with virilization and hirsutism are to be distinguished .

literature

  • RM Trüeb: Hypertrichosis. In: Dermatologist Vol. 59, 2008, pp. 325–338
  • M. Gryngarten, P. Bedecarràs, S. Ayuso, C. Bergadà, S. Campo, ME Escobar: Clinical assessment and serum hormonal profile in prepubertal hypertrichosis. In: Hormone research. Volume 54, number 1, 2000, pp. 20-25, doi: 10.1159 / 000063432 , PMID 11182631 .
  • RM Trüeb, S. Borelli, M. Gloor, B. Wüthrich: Prepuberal hypertrichosis. In: Swiss medical weekly. Volume 124, Number 14, April 1994, pp. 595-600, PMID 8184300 .
  • JH Barth, JD Wilkinson, RP Dawber: Prepubertal hypertrichosis: normal or abnormal? In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Volume 63, Number 6, June 1988, pp. 666-668, doi: 10.1136 / adc.63.6.666 , PMID 3389902 , PMC 1778859 (free full text).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia Dermatology
  2. ↑ a b c Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung
  3. ↑ LR Broster: hypertrichosis: a report of three cases. In: British medical journal. Volume 1, number 4663, May 1950, pp. 1171–1174, doi: 10.1136 / bmj.1.4663.1171 , PMID 15420429 , PMC 2037790 (free full text).