This is a descriptive clinicopathological study (review of cases) that was carried out in the outpatient clinic of dermatology and venereology in Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital in Baghdad from December 2010 to April 2011. Forty-two patients with cicatricial alopecia were included in this study with age ranged from 17 to 62years with a mean age 35.07 11.23years.Primary cicatricial alopecia was seen in fourteen male patients (33.3%) and twenty-eight females (66.7%) making female to male ratio 2:1. Discoid lupus erythematosus was diagnosed in 17 patients (40.5%) with female to male ratio 4.6:1,...