Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Tinea Capitis

Del J. DeHart, M.D.

N Engl J Med 1993; 329:849September 16, 1993

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Figure 1 Tinea Capitis.

Tinea capitis with kerion formation and cervical adenopathy is shown in an 11-year-old boy who had had the infection for three years. The child had a partial response to a one-month course of griseofulvin and one month of ketoconazole therapy. There was complete resolution after two months of oral griseofulvin and two weeks of tapering corticosteroid therapy.

Kim Eagle, M.D.

Del J. DeHart, M.D.
Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals, Saginaw, MI 48602