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Tinea Capitis

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Clinical Cases in Skin of Color

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Abstract

A 10-year old African American boy presents with an oval patch of hair loss on his occipital scalp. He has had the patch for about a month. He also has dandruff. The patient’s mother is concerned that this hairloss is permanent as she recalls her mother had alopecia. Review of systems is otherwise negative.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 N St Clair St, Ste 1600, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Giselle Rodriguez & Roopal V. Kundu MD

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Correspondence to Roopal V. Kundu MD .

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  1. Montgomery Dermatology, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

    Porcia B. Love

  2. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Roopal V. Kundu

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Rodriguez, G., Kundu, R.V. (2016). Tinea Capitis. In: Love, P., Kundu, R. (eds) Clinical Cases in Skin of Color. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22392-6_12

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