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 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_1_080902 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA INCOGNITO / TINEA CORPORIS | Category: | infections and infestations | ||
| Body Site: | chest / neck / neck | Age: | 10 years | ||
| Contributor: | Yelena Frankel, MD, MPH | ||||
| Description: | erythematous, annular, sclaly plaque with well demarcated border | ||||
| Comments: | A 10-year-old girl with an itchy rash on the chest was treated with a combination topical antifungal/steroid cream for 6 months. She experienced an improvement in symptoms, but the eruption recurred as soon as she discontinued therapy. A potassium hydroxide preparation showed branching septate hyphae, and she subsequently cleared with an oral antifungal medication. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_4_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA CAPITIS / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | papulosquamous eruptions / infections and infestations / hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp / forehead | Age: | 9 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | scaly hypopigmented 3 cm patch with decreased hair density; second pink, hypopigmented scaly patch on mid forehead | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 9-year-old girl had an itchy scaly patch on her mid frontal scalp a year ago which was treated with topical steroids. The patch improved but hair loss slowly progressed. She subsequently developed several scaly patches on her forehead and left temple which also improved but never cleared with topical steroids. On evaluation a potassium hydroxide preparation was florridly positive from hair bearing (endothrix)as well as non-hair bearing (septate branching hyphae) areas. She was started on oral ultramicrosized griseofulvin. Note the annular patch on the left temple. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_3_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA CAPITIS / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | papulosquamous eruptions / infections and infestations / hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp / forehead | Age: | 9 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | scaly hypopigmented 3 cm patch with decreased hair density; subtle scaly annular patch on the left temple | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 9-year-old girl had an itchy scaly patch on her mid frontal scalp a year ago which was treated with topical steroids. The patch improved but hair loss slowly progressed. She subsequently developed several scaly patches on her forehead and left temple which also improved but never cleared with topical steroids. On evaluation a potassium hydroxide preparation was florridly positive from hair bearing (endothrix)as well as non-hair bearing (septate branching hyphae) areas. She was started on oral ultramicrosized griseofulvin. Note the annular patch on the left temple. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_2_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA CAPITIS / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | papulosquamous eruptions / infections and infestations / hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp / forehead | Age: | 9 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | scaly hypopigmented 3 cm patch with decreased hair density | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 9-year-old girl had an itchy scaly patch on her mid frontal scalp a year ago which was treated with topical steroids. The patch improved but hair loss slowly progressed. She subsequently developed several scaly patches on her forehead and left temple which also improved but never cleared with topical steroids. On evaluation a potassium hydroxide preparation was florridly positive from hair bearing (endothrix)as well as non-hair bearing (septate branching hyphae) areas. She was started on oral ultramicrosized griseofulvin. Note the annular patch on the left temple. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_1_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA CAPITIS / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | papulosquamous eruptions / infections and infestations / hair disorders | ||
| Body Site: | scalp / forehead | Age: | 9 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | scaly hypopigmented 3 cm patch with decreased hair density | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 9-year-old girl had an itchy scaly patch on her mid frontal scalp a year ago which was treated with topical steroids. The patch improved but hair loss slowly progressed. She subsequently developed several scaly patches on her forehead and left temple which also improved but never cleared with topical steroids. On evaluation a potassium hydroxide preparation was florridly positive from hair bearing (endothrix)as well as non-hair bearing (septate branching hyphae) areas. She was started on oral ultramicrosized griseofulvin. Note the annular patch on the left temple. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_capitis_2_060408 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA CAPITIS / TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | infections and infestations / papulosquamous eruptions | ||
| Body Site: | scalp | Age: | 15 years | ||
| Contributor: | Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD | ||||
| Description: | confluent hyperpigmented red patch with scattered pustules and diffuse fine scale | ||||
| Comments: | This adolescent boy was misdiagnosed with alopecia areata and treated with oral antibiotics and topical steroids. Although the erythema, pustules and itching subsided the scale and subtle erythema became confluent on the back of the neck and scalp. He eventually cleared when tinea capitis was diagnosed and he was treated with an oral antifungal medication. | ||||
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 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Tinea_Incognito_Trunk_1_060111 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA INCOGNITO | Category: | infections and infestations | ||
| Body Site: | trunk | Age: | 28 years | ||
| Contributor: | Sugathan Paramoo, MD, FRCP(Glasg) | ||||
| Description: | annular scaly violaceous plaque | ||||
| Comments: | This 28-year-old woman had itchy erythematous circinate plaques of the goin, both flanks, submammary region and the buttocks for 3 years. She was applying a cream consisting of betamethasone valerate 0.05 percent , gentamycin sulphate 0.1 percent , tolnaftate 1 percent , and idochlor hydroxyquin 1 percent with some improvement. | ||||
 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_1_050103 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA INCOGNITO / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA FACEI | Category: | infections and infestations / papulosquamous eruptions / annular eruption | ||
| Body Site: | face / cheek cheek | Age: | 8 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | red annular plaque | ||||
| Comments: | This 8-year-old girl was avaluated for a red annular pruritic eruption on the right cheeck that was treated at home by his mother with topical betamethasone valreate cream for two weeks. The eruption, that was initially scaly, subsided but recurred when the topical steroid was discontinued. | ||||
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 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_2_050103 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA INCOGNITO / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA FACEI | Category: | infections and infestations / papulosquamous eruptions / annular eruption | ||
| Body Site: | face / cheek cheek | Age: | 8 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | red annular plaque | ||||
| Comments: | This 8-year-old girl was avaluated for a red annular pruritic eruption on the right cheeck that was treated at home by his mother with topical betamethasone valreate cream for two weeks. The eruption, that was initially scaly, subsided but recurred when the topical steroid was discontinued. | ||||
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 © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | tinea_incognito_3_050103 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | TINEA INCOGNITO / TINEA CORPORIS / TINEA FACEI | Category: | infections and infestations / papulosquamous eruptions | ||
| Body Site: | face / cheek cheek | Age: | 8 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | red annular plaque | ||||
| Comments: | This 8-year-old girl was avaluated for a red annular pruritic eruption on the right cheeck that was treated at home by his mother with topical betamethasone valreate cream for two weeks. The eruption, that was initially scaly, subsided but recurred when the topical steroid was discontinued. | ||||
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