Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use

Tinea capitis is unusual and often misdiagnosed in healthy adults. We report a case of a healthy woman with a several-year history of asymptomatic, bizarre-shaped, non-scarring alopecia. She had used over-the-counter ketoconazole shampoo regularly for a long time. An initial potassium hydroxide pre...

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Autores principales:	Alita Sombatmaithai, Penvadee Pattanaprichakul, Papapit Tuchinda, Theetat Surawan, Chanai Muanprasart, Lalita Matthapan, Sumanas Bunyaratavej
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Publicado:	Mattioli1885 2015
Materias:	tinea capitis Trichophyton tonsurans patchy hair loss alopecia Dermatology RL1-803
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cfcdb23c9ac24bd6866a8bd0adb6b3c32021-11-17T08:31:37ZTinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use10.5826/dpc.0502a272160-9381https://doaj.org/article/cfcdb23c9ac24bd6866a8bd0adb6b3c32015-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dpcj.org/index.php/dpc/article/view/829https://doaj.org/toc/2160-9381 Tinea capitis is unusual and often misdiagnosed in healthy adults. We report a case of a healthy woman with a several-year history of asymptomatic, bizarre-shaped, non-scarring alopecia. She had used over-the-counter ketoconazole shampoo regularly for a long time. An initial potassium hydroxide preparation showed negative result for fungal organism. The scalp biopsy revealed endothrix infection, and dermoscopic examination demonstrated the comma hair and corkscrew hair signs. The fungal culture showed Trichophyton tonsurans. The daily use of antifungal shampoo could be the important factor to conceal clinical and laboratory findings for diagnosis of T. tonsurans tinea capitis in our case, which required high clinical suspicion and histopathology and dermoscopic examinations. Alita SombatmaithaiPenvadee PattanaprichakulPapapit TuchindaTheetat SurawanChanai MuanprasartLalita MatthapanSumanas BunyaratavejMattioli1885articletinea capitisTrichophyton tonsuranspatchy hair lossalopeciaDermatologyRL1-803ENDermatology Practical & Conceptual (2015)
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topic	tinea capitis Trichophyton tonsurans patchy hair loss alopecia Dermatology RL1-803
spellingShingle	tinea capitis Trichophyton tonsurans patchy hair loss alopecia Dermatology RL1-803 Alita Sombatmaithai Penvadee Pattanaprichakul Papapit Tuchinda Theetat Surawan Chanai Muanprasart Lalita Matthapan Sumanas Bunyaratavej Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
description	Tinea capitis is unusual and often misdiagnosed in healthy adults. We report a case of a healthy woman with a several-year history of asymptomatic, bizarre-shaped, non-scarring alopecia. She had used over-the-counter ketoconazole shampoo regularly for a long time. An initial potassium hydroxide preparation showed negative result for fungal organism. The scalp biopsy revealed endothrix infection, and dermoscopic examination demonstrated the comma hair and corkscrew hair signs. The fungal culture showed Trichophyton tonsurans. The daily use of antifungal shampoo could be the important factor to conceal clinical and laboratory findings for diagnosis of T. tonsurans tinea capitis in our case, which required high clinical suspicion and histopathology and dermoscopic examinations.
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author	Alita Sombatmaithai Penvadee Pattanaprichakul Papapit Tuchinda Theetat Surawan Chanai Muanprasart Lalita Matthapan Sumanas Bunyaratavej
author_facet	Alita Sombatmaithai Penvadee Pattanaprichakul Papapit Tuchinda Theetat Surawan Chanai Muanprasart Lalita Matthapan Sumanas Bunyaratavej
author_sort	Alita Sombatmaithai
title	Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
title_short	Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
title_full	Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
title_fullStr	Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
title_full_unstemmed	Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
title_sort	tinea capitis caused by trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use
publisher	Mattioli1885
publishDate	2015
url	https://doaj.org/article/cfcdb23c9ac24bd6866a8bd0adb6b3c3
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Tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans presenting as an obscure patchy hair loss due to daily antifungal shampoo use

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