Micetomas por microsporum canis: caso clínico / Mycetomas by microsporum canis: report of one case

We report and eight years old boy presenting with a pyogenic granuloma of the scalp, generalized alopecia, descamative plates in the neck, trunk and limbs and nail involvement. Cultures for fungus of all these lesions disclosed Microspore canis. The patient was treated with oral griseofulvin, miconazole and topical tolnaftate. Five years later and after several incomplete treatments, the patient returns with a fistulous mass of 12 x 8 cm in the dorsal area whose culture revealed Microspore canis. The mass was excised and oral ketoconazole was indicated. After three months of follow up, the patient was lost from control

Querion de Celso: ¿un problema diagnóstico?: experiencia en 6 pacientes / Kerion Celsi: a diagnostic problem?: experience in 6 patients

We report 6 patients with Kerion Celsi due to trichophyton verrucosum. Five of the patients were hospiotalized with the diagnosis of Staphylococcal abscess. This confusion is due to that highly suppurative and inflammatory nature of the infection. Griseofulvin is the antimicrobial of choice for treatment, asociated with imidazolics and corticosteroids to prevent alopecia. The authors suggest that an adequate use of simple microbiological diagnosis tests in the diagnosis of pyodermitis in rural children, may prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and permanent hair loss