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Treat scalp and beard fungal infections early with oral antifungal medication and sometimes topical therapy, avoiding unnecessary allergy tests and surgery.

This case report describes a rare instance of tinea capitis in a 19-year-old male, initially misdiagnosed as dissecting cellulitis, highlighting the need for accurate diagnosis to prevent scarring alopecia.

This study presents three cases where tinea capitis in children mimicked cicatricial alopecia and explores host and fungal factors that may influence the disease's presentation and treatment.

This case report describes a Persian cat with dermatophytic pseudomycetoma that initially responded to griseofulvin treatment and surgical excision, but the condition relapsed, ultimately leading to the cat's death.

This study found that serial vertical sectioning of scalp biopsies significantly increases the histological diagnostic yield for alopecias.

Dr. Vera H. Price's 1979 work emphasizes the importance of accurate diagnosis and personalized treatment for hair loss.

This article reviews hair and nail disorders in children, emphasizing their prevalence, congenital and acquired origins, and the diagnostic challenges compared to treatment, but reports no new clinical results.

This study found that adhesive tape impression cytology was effective for diagnosing dermatophytosis in dogs and cats, particularly in dogs with kerion, exhibiting sensitivity comparable to or higher than other tests.

This case report describes how trichoscopy helped diagnose tinea capitis disguised as female pattern hair loss in cases of endothrix infection, highlighting its usefulness in avoiding misdiagnosis.

Early detection and skin biopsies are crucial for treating skin cancer and diagnosing various skin conditions.

This case report describes successful treatment of a four-year-old boy with kerion-type tinea capitis caused by T. mentagrophytes using griseofulvin, erythromycin, wet dressing, and ketokonazole shampoo, with improvement after 8 weeks.

This article reviews the classification of hair shaft abnormalities, outlining their diagnostic features, but does not present new research findings.

This article discusses the role of stratum corneum disruption in dandruff and suggests that treatments improving scalp barrier integrity along with antifungal activity may be beneficial; it reports no new research findings.

This review details historical advancements in understanding and treating superficial fungal infections, with notable milestones in identifying causative agents and developing effective treatments, but it reports no new findings.

This review discusses the dermatology of nonhuman primates and emphasizes the need for a cohesive approach to study and report their dermatologic diseases, without assuming similarities to human or other veterinary conditions.

This study developed a deep learning model using the VGG architecture to predict hair disorders and provide tailored therapeutic suggestions, showing reliable recognition of conditions like dandruff, fungal infections, and alopecia by analyzing images of hair and scalp.

This article reviews common dermatologic diseases and their treatments, suggesting that physicians can effectively manage these conditions using general medical knowledge, but it reports no new clinical results.

In this study, researchers conducted a large genome-wide association meta-analysis and found 30 significant genetic loci linked to the risk of dermatophytosis, shedding light on the roles of keratin biology, skin barrier defects, immune dysfunction, and obesity in the disease.

This summary presents papers from the British Society for Dermatopathology but does not report new scientific findings or results.

This article reviews the diagnosis and treatment of tinea capitis in children, noting that newer antifungal agents can offer effective systemic therapy alongside supportive topical treatments; it reports no new clinical findings.

This study reports that complementary and alternative medicine is commonly used for dermatological diseases in Eastern Turkey, with 43.7% of patients using at least one method and various unconventional practices observed.

This review discusses causes of hair loss in cats, highlighting self-inflicted trauma due to flea allergy dermatitis, and presents no new clinical findings.

This review highlights recent advances in pediatric dermatologic treatments, including the use of propranolol for infantile hemangiomas and etanercept for plaque psoriasis, but it reports no new clinical results.

This review discusses advancements in understanding hair cycle and inflammatory alopecias, proposing a standard classification and tiered treatment recommendations, but reports no clinical results.

This study is the first to document alopecia in Guadalupe fur seals in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, finding that it may result from nutritional stress due to higher sea surface temperatures.

In this study, an infection model using rabbits was developed for dermatophytosis by inoculating macroconidia of Microsporum species, showing that direct intradermal application effectively progressed to the skin invasion phase and highlighted the correlation between severity of symptoms and duration post-inoculation.

In this case report, researchers document a female dog in tropical conditions with dermatophytosis, a zoonotic fungal infection common in hot and humid climates, showing symptoms like alopecia on the neck and ear tips.

This study discusses how dermatological issues in athletes can arise from or be exacerbated by mechanical trauma, infections, and environmental factors, highlighting the importance of thorough history and examination to differentiate these from other skin conditions.

This review discusses various forensic applications of hair analysis, such as species identification and drug addiction testing, and reports no new study results.

This article discusses temporal triangular alopecia, emphasizing the need for increased awareness to prevent misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment, but reports no new clinical results.