Flesh colored, painful nodular plaques on the vertex of the scalp which frequently discharge a seropurulent material. Patient reports a loss of hair in the affected area and states the condition ...

For the vertex area, the mean change from baseline to week 24 was ... in the vertex and 13.1% higher (P=0.15) in the frontal scalp. Sixty percent of the oral minoxidil group and 48% of the topical ...