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Surgery of Kerion, a Nightmare for Nondermatologists

Kerion is an inflammatory type of tinea capitis characterized by swelling and alopecia of the scalp, which could be mistaken as bacterial infection. It occurs most frequently in children. We report a 10-year-old child whose kerion was misdiagnosed as bacterial abscess and unnecessarily incised. Late...

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Autor principal: Paudel, Vikash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7512080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8825912