A Case of Extensive Kerion Celsi due to Microsporum canis in an Aged Woman.
- Author:
Eun Young AHN
1
;
Jee Bum LEE
;
Seung Chul LEE
;
Young Ho WON
Author Information
1. Department of Dermatology, Chonnam University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Kerion celsi;
Eldery;
M. canis
- MeSH:
Agar;
Aged;
Child;
Female;
Glucose;
Hair;
Humans;
Microsporum*;
Polymerase Chain Reaction;
Rabeprazole;
Scalp;
Tinea Capitis*
- From:Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
2000;5(1):31-34
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Kerion celsi, a severe inflammatory type of tinea capitis, which occurs chiefly in children between the ages of 4 and 14 years. We report a case of kerion celsi occuring in an elderly woman. She is a 67-year old wonman, presented with inflammatory, boggy mass studded with broken hairs, and oozing purulent materials from follicular orifices on the parietal scalp, which had been extending over almost entire scalp for 2 weeks. Kerin celsi caused by M. canin with atypical microscopic findings of the colony on the Sabouraud's dextrose agar was diagnosed by PCR analysis using PAPD method. This case is reported with two interesting facts: Kerion celsi is occuring rarely in old persons; Clinically kerion celsi progessed rapidly after onset in this case.
