Tinea Caput Medusa: An Unusual Presentation of Trichophyton mentagrophytes on the Scalp

Cutis

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-52

  Houck, Heather E ^a   Cooley, Jerry E ^a   Lowitt, Mark H ^a   Kao, Grace F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRISEOFULVIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRISEOFULVIN; HUMANS; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 0030184530     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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