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The etiology and prevalence of Tinea Capitis in adults and children was studied in 115 cases. The most common etiologic agent was Trichophyton Violaceum recovered from 82 63% cases, Trichophyton rubrum from 10.4%, Trichophyton tonsurans from 3.47% and Microsporum canis from 3.4% cases. The study includes seventy cases of "blackdot" ringworm of the scalp, four cases of Kerion and forty one cases...

Iran J Pediatr; Vol 23 (No 6), Dec 2013 Published by: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (http://ijp.tums.ac.ir) 3. Binder B, Lackner HK, Poessl BD, et al. Prevalence of tinea capitis in Southeastern Austria between 1985 and 2008: up-to-date picture of the current situation. Mycoses 2011;54(3):243-7. 4. Del Boz J, Crespo V, Rivas-Ruiz F, et al. A 30-year survey of paediatric tinea capitis in...

Tinea capitis is of public health importance because of its transmissibility. Trichophyton violaceum and Trichophyton soudanense, which are common causes of tinea capitis in parts of Africa and West Asia, have only rarely been reported to cause dermatophytoses in the United States. We identified 24 patients with 25 positive cultures for T. violaceum or T. soudanense that were processed in a sin...

Observation: Wooly hair is usually present at birth or infancy with a genetic linkage of autosomal dominant or recessive. Hair is curly, thick and often heavily pigmented. This condition has been reported with eye, teeth, cardiac anomalies. Also, keratosis pilaris atrophicans, ichtiyosis and deafness, palmoplantar keratoderma and Noonan syndrome may accompany wooly hair. We report two sisters w...

This case report describes abnormalities in bilateral rectus capitis posterior minor muscles in one individual with persistent head and neck pain. These findings are muscle atrophy, fatty infiltration on magnetic resonance imaging, and electromyographic abnormalities compatible with denervated muscle. The objective of the study contained herein was to determine if fatty infiltration on magnetic...

Ventrodorsal pelvic radiographs were made of 32 adult dogs under general anaesthesia. The hip joints were evaluated according to the severity of osteoarthritic changes graded as 0, 1, 2 or 3. The dogs were euthanased, the hip joints opened and the ligamentum capitis femoris dissected out in toto. The volume of each ligament was determined using a water displacement technique and the mean volume...