Plate 35-Kerion from ringworm
Item
Title
Plate 35-Kerion from ringworm
Description
Modern Term: Tinea capitis, and if boggy pustular plaques, kerion
In tinea capitis, alopecia is due to breakage of hair shafts made fragile by the proliferation of dermatophyte conidia within them. Cell-mediated response to infection may produce a boggy edematous plaque of the scalp called a kerion.
In tinea capitis, alopecia is due to breakage of hair shafts made fragile by the proliferation of dermatophyte conidia within them. Cell-mediated response to infection may produce a boggy edematous plaque of the scalp called a kerion.
Date
1860-1884
Subject
Skin--Diseases.
Format
Still image
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1859705
Publisher
New Sydenham Society
Source
Atlas of portraits of diseases of the skin
Rights
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Contributor
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Type
Chromolithographs
