A 10-Year-Old Boy Presents with an Itchy Scalp with the Underlying

Multiple Choice

A 10-year-old boy presents with an itchy scalp with the underlying hair becoming lighter. The patch has expanded to 2 inches. What should you expect to see in a KOHdigested mount of skin scrapings taken at the infected margin of a lesion from this patient with tinea capitis?

A) Yeast cells, pseudohyphae, and true hyphae
B) Regular septate hyphae with little branching
C) Irregular but broad, aseptate hyphae
D) Septate hyphae regularly branching dichotomously at an acute angle
E) Yeasts only