title: Tinea capitis mimicking dissecting cellulitis: a distinct variant.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tinea capitis is a common scalp dermatosis with several clinical patterns. Only two patients with a presentation of tinea capitis mimicking dissecting cellulitis have been described in the English literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a patient with tinea capitis mimicking dissecting cellulitis who did not respond to griseofulvin therapy at 16 mg/kg/day but eventually cleared after a protracted course of higher dose griseofulvin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  recognition of a dissecting cellulitis-like pattern of tinea capitis will increase clinical suspicion and avoid inappropriate management of a recalcitrant "dissecting cellulitis" in favor of prompt antifungal therapy of appropriate dosage and duration for patients with this unusual variant of tinea capitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati, Division of Pediatric Dermatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
authors.forename: Joy M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Twersky
authors.forename: Anita P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Sheth
mesh_terms: D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006118:Griseofulvin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014006:Tinea Capitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents; D006118:Griseofulvin