Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: Superimposed tinea capitis as the etiology of chronic scalp pruritus

Abstract

We discuss a patient with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) who developed severe scalp pruritus that was initially attributed to the cicatricial alopecia and ultimately diagnosed as tinea capitis. The rarity of severe pruritus in CCCA should prompt a search for a fungal infection in these patients.