You are here

  • Home
  • Online First
  • Greenish-yellow fluorescence of scalp kerion celsi using Wood’s lamp

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in paediatrics
Greenish-yellow fluorescence of scalp kerion celsi using Wood’s lamp
  1. Tanvi Dev,
  2. Hemant Tyagi,
  3. Vaishnavi Modi,
  4. Vishal Gaurav
  1. Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor (Dr.) Vishal Gaurav; mevishalgaurav{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-327733

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    A 7-year-old boy presented with a 3-week history of a progressively enlarging, tender and boggy scalp lesion with associated hair loss. Clinical examination revealed stable vitals and a tender, well-demarcated, erythematous and edematous plaque with multiple pustules, crusting and alopecia on the occipital region, measuring 8 cm in diameter (figure 1). The occipital lymph nodes were enlarged. Wood’s lamp examination revealed bright greenish-yellow fluorescence (figure 2). The potassium hydroxide (KOH) mount showed the presence of …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors VG and TD prepared the first draft of the manuscript. All authors edited and reviewed the manuscript. VG acts as the guarantor.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.