Tinea Capitis, Dermatophytosis - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

tinea capitis dermatophytosis

Body Site

scalp

Age

10 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

Color

red

Morphology

macular / flat (macule / patch)

Pattern

Comments

A healthy 10 year old boy developed widespread scaly red itchy round patches of alopecia on his scalp. A potassium hydroxide examination of scale from his scalp showed endothrix infection with spores in hair fragments, and a culture grew Trichophyton tonsurans. The lesions improved markedly within 10 weeks, and a culture obtained at a 10 week check up was still negative 2 weeks later when the griseofulvin was stopped.

Description

scaly red hairless round to oval patches

Image Added

4/15/2001 22:43:28

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