Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections

Item

Plate 35-Kerion from ringworm

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.

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