Tokelau (Tinea Imbricata): Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis (For professionals)

Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis

• Diagnosis is clinical and can be confirmed by scale scrapings and fungal culture.
• In acute presentation in can be confused with secondary syphilis, granuloma annulare and erythema annulare centrifugum.
• In chronic presentation it can look like ichtyosis and erythema gyratum repens.

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