Trichoscopy in Paediatric Patients with Tinea Capitis: A Useful Method to Differentiate from Alopecia Areata

Abstract

Broken and dystrophic hairs, corkscrew hairs, comma hairs and black dots were observed only in patients with TC; yellow dots, exclamation mark hairs and vellus hairs were observed only in patients with alopesi areata. Further studies with larger numbers of patients are needed to determine specific trichoscopic findings of TC and to access differential diagnosis.