Tinea Manuum, Dermatophytosis - DermAtlas

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Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD

Diagnosis

tinea manuum dermatophytosis

Body Site

hand wrist

Age

35 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

grouped, clustered

Color

red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

asymmetric

Comments

This 35-year-old woman developed expanding annular scaly plaques on the dorsum and the palmar aspect of her right hand and wrist. A clinical diagnosis of tinea manum was confirmed with a fungal culture which grew Trichophyton mentagrophytes. She improved with topical clotrimazole and oral itraconazole in two weeks.

Description

annular red scaly plaques

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9/8/2003 21:51:47

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