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Image Number #3822 (Kerion)

Diagnosis: Kerion

Description: Boggy mass studded with pustules.

Morphology: Pustules

Site: Scalp

Sex: M

Age: 7

Type: Clinical

Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany

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History: 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.

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