CLINICAL & MYCOLOGICAL STUDY OF. TINEA CORPORIS IN SOHAG GOVERNORATE

Abstract

Tinea corporis is one of the commonly encountered skin diseases especially in tropical and subtropical countries. Reviewing the literature no previous reports on tinea corporis in Sohag Governorate are available.

In this work tinea corporis was investigated in Sohag

Governorate for the first time.

• The present study was carried out on 100 patients with tin ea corporis attended Dermatology out-patient Clinic of Sohag

Teaching Hospital. All cases were examined clinically and

rnycoloqically.

Clinical Findings:

- In the studied group females comprised 58% of cases while

•• males accounted for 42% . - The main bulk of the studied patients (76%) were between 1-20

years of age.

- The .most common clinical type of tinea corporis met with in this study was the annular type (74%), next common was the crusted type ( 11 % ) , followed by the eczematous type (81 % ) , then the kerion (6%) and the granulomatous type that was encountered in 1 % .

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