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Patient's skin and hair manifestations.. Notes: (A and B) before zinc supplementation; alopecia and leukotrichia (A), scaly and erosive hyperkeratotic plaques (B). C and D post-treatment showing resolved skin and hair manifestations.
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In addition to leukotrichia and positive hair pull test (Figure 1), his zinc level was very low at 3.4 (9.18-18.36) micromol/L. All skin eruptions started to resolve after oral zinc supplementation over 2 weeks (Figure 1).
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