Folliculitis Decalvans and Tufted Folliculitis Are Specific Infective Diseases That May Lead to Scarring, but Are Not a Subset of Central Centrifugal Scarring Alopecia

We thoroughly enjoyed reading the excellent article titled "A New Look at Scarring Alopecia" in the February 2000 issue of the ARCHIVES.¹ It is fascinating to think about scarring alopecia in this new and thorough way, and the complexities of Figure 10 are a masterpiece!

However, we are not in full agreement with the placement of folliculitis decalvans (FD) within the large circle of central centrifugal scarring alopecia, nor with "tufted folliculitis" (TF) being categorized as a nonspecific end point of scarring that "should be purged from the lexicon of scarring alopecia."¹