Trichoscopic changes in tinea capitis before and after treatment

A 5-year-old male child presented to our outpatient department with an itchy patch of hair loss on the frontotemporal region of the scalp.On examination, a solitary alopecic patch of size 4 x 4 cm was present in the frontotemporal scalp region, as shown in Figure 1a.Trichoscopic examination revealed hair shaft features such as black dots, comma hairs, cork-screw hairs, and zig-zag hairs, as shown in Figure 1b.