[Alopecia in meralgia paraesthetica].

Two patients are described who had a lesion in the lateral cutaneous nerves of the thigh, both of which were verified by anamnestic, clinical and electrophysiological data. Both showed alopecia in the region supplied by the nerve. A biopsy performed on one patient showed atrophy of the epidermis and hair follicles. It is pointed out that this kind of trophic disturbance, which is very seldom described in literature on meralgia paraesthetica, may possibly be found more often in long-standing cases of this disease.