Pathogenesis of hair infection and black dots in tinea capitis caused byTrichophyton violaceum: a histopathological study
作者:
J. Yu‐Yun Lee,
Ming‐Long Hsu,
期刊:
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 1
页码: 54-58
ISSN:0303-6987
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0560.1992.tb01559.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The majority of tinea capitis in southern Taiwan occur in adult women and are caused byTrichophyton violaceum.We report the histopathological Endings of a series of 10 cases of tinea capitis caused byT. violaceum, the largest such study to date. Our study provides new information regarding the process of hair infection, mechanism of black dot formation, and chronicity of infection caused by this fungus. The cuticle remains intact. The fungi enter the proximal cortex where the cuticle is immature. They then colonize the proximal keratinized cortex and generate septate hyphae which transform gradually into arthrospores as they arc carried upwards by the growing hair. At the infundibular level, the hair cortex is almost completely replaced by spores and swells, impeding further exit of the growing hair and causing the already weakened hair to coil up inside the infundibulum, forming a black dol. In one patient who had infection for more than 20 years, there were changes suggestive of cyclic rein‐lection of the same follicles which might contribute to the chronicity of die infectio
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