AI Article Synopsis
- Tinea incognito, often caused by excessive corticosteroid use, is increasingly prevalent in tropical regions and difficult to diagnose due to its unusual appearance.
- Traditional mycological tests can be ineffective, complicating the diagnosis further.
- Dermoscopy has emerged as a helpful diagnostic method that can reveal specific hair changes associated with tinea incognito, even when other test results are inconclusive.
Article Abstract
Tinea incognito resulting from corticosteroid abuse is becoming very common in the tropics. Its diagnosis is tricky owing to its confusing morphology, as well as practical and technical issues associated with mycological tests. Dermoscopy has now evolved as a novel diagnostic tool for diagnosing tinea incognito in such challenging situations, since the typical hair changes such as Morse-code hairs, deformable hairs, translucent hairs, comma and cork screw hairs, and perifollicular scaling may be seen despite steroid use, irrespective of mycological results.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857559 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abd.2019.09.017 | DOI Listing |
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