Two Erratic Cases of Tinea Capitis in Adults: Utility of Trichoscopy

Tinea capitis (TC) is a common infectious disease throughout the world, mainly seen in children, but it can occur in adults. Even if mycological examination is essential to confirm the diagnosis, it has been proved that trichoscopy is a very effective useful tool in the screening of TC. Herein, we r...

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Autores principales: Lahouel, Maha, Mokni, Sana, Chouaieb, Hamed, Denguezli, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7659736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223736
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_20_20
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Mokni, Sana
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description Tinea capitis (TC) is a common infectious disease throughout the world, mainly seen in children, but it can occur in adults. Even if mycological examination is essential to confirm the diagnosis, it has been proved that trichoscopy is a very effective useful tool in the screening of TC. Herein, we report two cases of adult TC with atypical clinical presentations causing a diagnostic delay of several years.
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spelling pubmed-76597362020-11-19 Two Erratic Cases of Tinea Capitis in Adults: Utility of Trichoscopy Lahouel, Maha Mokni, Sana Chouaieb, Hamed Denguezli, Mohamed Int J Trichology Case Report Tinea capitis (TC) is a common infectious disease throughout the world, mainly seen in children, but it can occur in adults. Even if mycological examination is essential to confirm the diagnosis, it has been proved that trichoscopy is a very effective useful tool in the screening of TC. Herein, we report two cases of adult TC with atypical clinical presentations causing a diagnostic delay of several years. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7659736/ /pubmed/33223736 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_20_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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