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## Abstract **Background** Tinea capitis is a common scalp dermatosis with several clinical patterns. Only two patients with a presentation of tinea capitis mimicking dissecting cellulitis have been described in the English literature. **Observation** We report a patient with tinea capitis mimicking dissecting cellulitis who did not respond to griseofulvin therapy at 16 mg/kg/day but eventually cleared after a protracted course of higher dose griseofulvin. **Conclusion** Recognition of a dissecting cellulitis‐like pattern of tinea capitis will increase clinical suspicion and avoid inappropriate management of a recalcitrant “dissecting cellulitis” in favor of prompt antifungal therapy of appropriate dosage and duration for patients with this unusual variant of tinea capitis.

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Author

Joy M. Twersky; Anita P. Sheth

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)