Sidharth Sonthalia Author
Annual Meeting Abstract Open Access
Author(s): Sidharth Sonthalia
Background: The rampant use of over-the counter steroids for tinea has resulted in the epidemic of tinea incognita leading to the epidemic of antifungal therapeutic failures in South Asian countries. Intermittent or prolonged use of oral/ topical corticosteroids in cutaneous fungal infections not only renders treatment difficult, but also jeopardizes clinical as well as laboratory diagnosis by standard KOH smear and fungal culture methods, since the scaling (that contains the fungi) is dramatically suppressed. Dermoscopy or dermatoscopy alludes to the assessment of the skin utilizing skin surface microscopy and is moreover called 'epiluminoscopy' and 'epiluminescent microscopy'.
Dermoscopy is especially wont to evaluate pigmented skin lesions. In experienced hands... view moreĀ»