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Ludwig scale for diagnosis of hair loss in female (women)
Hair Loss
Symptoms and Testing
Degree by Yourself
Ludwig Scale : The only scale measuring
female pattern hair loss (overall thinning).
The following diagrams measure pattern loss
typical in women. Pattern hair loss in women is
typified by an overall thinning of density. Hair
loss occurs over the entire top of the scalp and
is not localized to the vertex. Although female
pattern loss is typical in most women with
pattern hair loss, it does not mean that they
can not experience hair loss in a male pattern
described by one of the other scales.
Conversely, a small percentage of men also
experience overall thinning typical of female
pattern loss.
Ludwig 1-1 : The
central parting of a woman with no hair loss.
Ludwig 1-2 1-3 1-4 : The
width of the parting gets progressively wider indicating thinner hair along the center of
scalp.
Ludwig 2-1 2-2 : Diffuse
thinning of the hair over the top of the scalp
Ludwig 3 : A woman with extensive diffuse hair loss on top of
the scalp, but some hair does survive
Ludwig Advanced :
A woman with extensive hair loss and little to
no surviving hair in the alopecia affected area.
Very few women ever reach this stage and if they
do it is usually because they have a condition
that causes significant, abnormally excessive
androgen hormone production.
Ludwig Frontal :
A woman with a pattern of hair loss that is
described as “frontally accentuated”. That means
there is more hair loss at the front and center
of the hair parting instead of just in the top
middle of the scalp.
