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?

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The tineas are caused by dermatophytes that generally appear in the tissue as septate hyphae with little branching. Sometimes arthroconidia are formed where large sections or the entire filament breaks up into spores.

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