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Both men and women are candidates for hair transplant surgery. There are a variety of causes that produce hair loss in patients, including genetic male and female pattern hair loss, primary inflammatory and infectious scalp dermatoses, and traumatic hair loss.

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  1. Cosmetic and Procedural Dermatologist, New York, NY, USA

    Robert L. Finney

  2. Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Marc R. Avram

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Murad Alam

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Finney, R.L., Avram, M.R. (2019). Hair Transplant. In: Alam, M. (eds) Evidence-Based Procedural Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02023-1_24

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