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Dermatophytosis may affect the scalp and mostly present as tinea capitis in children. Here we present a 7-year-old girl patient with a 2-month history of itching followed by a round scaly patch of the scalp. She also presented with alopecia with visible short and dull hairs accompanied by whitish fine scales in the middle and around the ill-defined lesion. The lesion gave blue-green fluorescence in Wood lamp examination. KOH prep of the scalp and infected hair revealed hyphae and spores, ectothrix spores invasion on hair shaft. Fungal growth by culture found the growth of Microsporum canis. The patient is diagnosed as gray patch tinea capitis and treated with oral micronized griseofulvin 375 mg daily and topical ketoconazole 2% shampoo three times a week for 8 weeks resulted in complete clearance both clinically and microscopically.
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Sari, P., Monica, Sugianto, Y.F.R., Ametati, H., Kusumaningrum, N., Afriliana, L. (2022). An Infectious Scalp Disorder. In: Waśkiel-Burnat, A., Sadoughifar, R., Lotti, T.M., Rudnicka, L. (eds) Clinical Cases in Scalp Disorders. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93426-2_50
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