TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Section 6. Fungal Infections
A1  - Weinberg, Samuel
A1  - Prose, Neil S.
A1  - Kristal, Leonard
Y1  - 2008
N1  - 
T2  - Color Atlas of Pediatric Dermatology, 4e
AB  - Fungal  infections  of  the  scalp  are  extremely  common  in  children.  The  diagnosis  of  tinea  capitis  should  be  entertained  in  any  child  in  whom  patches  of  incomplete  alopecia,  crusting,  or  scaling  are  found  in  the  scalp.  In  previous  decades,  Microsporum  canis  and  M.  audouinii  were  the  most  common  pathogenic  fungi  infecting  the  scalp.  The  latter  frequently  causes  a  discrete  grayish  patch  of  hair  loss  (Fig.  6-1).  In  most  parts  of  the  United  States  and  in  many  other  parts  of  the  world,  Trichophyton  tonsurans  is  now  the  predominant  organism  causing  tinea  capitis.  In  the  United  States,  this  form  of  tinea  capitis  is  seen  almost  exclusively  in  African  American  children.  In  some  children,  this  dermatophyte  causes  discrete  and  dramatic  areas  of  hair  loss  studded  by  the  stubs  of  broken  hairs,  the  so-called  black-dot  ringworm  (Fig.  6-2).  In  others,  there  are  only  small  and  unimpressive  patches  of  “seborrheic”  scale  with  minimal  hair  loss  or  groups  of  small  pustules.  
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Y2  - 2024/04/19
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