P-35   FOUR CASES OF CUTANEOUS COMPLICATIONS AFTER ARTIFICIAL HAIR

HO Kim, H. Choe, M-Y Kim, YM Park. Department of Dermatology, Kangnam St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea.

The implantation of synthetic fibers into the human scalp to simulate natural hair has been shown to cause severe complications and to be a possible danger to human health. The complications include pain, pruritus, hemorrhage, infection, facial swelling, loss of natural hair, scarring and possible malignant degeneration of the surrounding scalp. We report four typical cases of severe cutaneous complications after artificial hair implantation.