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sQUIZ your knowledge! Purulent painful plaques on a teenager's leg Volume 26, issue 6, November-December 2016

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1 University Clinic of Dermatology, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
2 Dermatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

A 15-year-old Caucasian girl presented with a three-week history of inflammatory painful lesions on one leg, which progressed despite oral antibiotic therapy.She had multiple exudative plaques and follicular pustules on the right leg (figure 1A). Bacteriological cultures were negative. KOH preparation revealed septate filaments and ectoendothrix hair invasion by spores (figure 1D); Trycophytum mentagrophytes was identified in cultures (figures 1B, C, E, F). Treatment with itraconazole at 200 mg/day [...]