Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Thyroid hormone has an important role for skin growth and development. Alopecia is one of the clinical feature of autoimmune hypothyroidism or systemic autoimmune diseaseCase IllustrationA 18-year-old Indonesian woman presented with alopecia universalis. It started with a patchy hair loss which then progress to all of her body. At the age of 15 she had complaints of neck enlargement, palpitation, weight loss, and heat i...