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Abstract Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an extremely common condition that occurs to some degree in most men who shave, but has attracted little attention in the medical literature (Phillips and McDonald, 1986). A search in the literature revealed an astonishing shortage of refe~ences to this condition. The excellent papers of Morison (1888); Fox (1908) and Hazen (1914) on dermatoses in black patients contain no indication that the peculiar picture caught the attention of these keen observers The first case of pseudofolliculitis barbae was reported by Dubreuilh (1922). The condition has been described under different names. Among the terms used are folliculitis barbae traumatica (Greenbaum, 1935); chronic scarring pseudofolliculitis of the negro beard (Pinkus, 1943) but in common dermatological parlance it is probably referred to as chronic sycosis barbae, a designation which is both inaccurate and misleading. Pseudofolliculitis barbae seems an apt name (Strauss and Kligman, 1956). |