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Image Number #4419 (Kerion)

Diagnosis: Kerion

Description: Boggy alopecic mass.

Morphology: Swelling

Site: Scalp

Sex: M

Age: 6

Type: Clinical

Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany

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Differential Diagnosis

History:

A 6-year-old boy lives in a rural area and had contact with domestic animals presented with a large bleeding boggy mass on the scalp with hair loss associated with tender suboccipital and cervical lymphadenopathy of three months duration. Direct hair examination under LM showed many fungal hyphae and spores.  

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