
Diagnosis: Kerion
Description: Boggy mass studded with pustules.
Morphology: Pustules
Site: Scalp
Sex: M
Age: 7
Type: Clinical
Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany
Differential DiagnosisHistory: A 7-year-old child from a rural area had long time contact with domestic animals presented with a boggy mass on the occipital scalp of one month duration. The mass was tender, crusted, studded with many pustules and associated with hair loss and suboccipital lymph nodes enlargement.