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dpc-4028	Piccolo, Vicenzo; Grimalt, Ramon; Nowowiejska, Julia; Cutrone, Mario	Bilateral Facial Hair Whorls in a Child	2024	2	.pdf	application/pdf	524	45	49	We were not able to find another report of localization of hair whorls in the beard area in the literature (probably also due to the scarcity of facial hair in children) which could pose problems in differential diagnosis. Several pathogenetic theories have been proposed for hair whorls, including the most accepted ‘mechanical tension’ theory (stretching of the epidermis during the rapid expansion of the cranium while the hair follicle grows downward into deeper tissues), or ‘inheritance’ theory (genetic predisposition)	cache/dpc-4028.pdf	txt/dpc-4028.txt