| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | chronic_paronychia_1_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / CANDIDIASIS | Category: | infections and infestations / environmental injury / papulosquamous eruptions / nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | thumb / finger nail, hand | Age: | 3 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | yellow, cracked, fissured dystrophic nails with surrounding erythema, scale and disrupted cuticle | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 3-year-old chronic thumb sucker develoepd an asymptomatic chronic paronychia of both thumb nails | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | chronic_paronychia_2_071226 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / CANDIDIASIS | Category: | infections and infestations / environmental injury / papulosquamous eruptions / nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | thumb / finger nail, hand | Age: | 3 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | yellow, cracked, fissured dystrophic nails with surrounding erythema, scale and disrupted cuticle | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 3-year-old chronic thumb sucker develoepd an asymptomatic chronic paronychia of both thumb nails | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Paronychia_Chronic_1_030420 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / CANDIDIASIS / NAIL DYSTROPHY | Category: | infections and infestations / nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | nail, hand | Age: | 40 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | erythema and edema of the nail fold,l oss of the cuticle with nail dystrophy and greenish dicoloration of the nail plate around the lateral nail fold | ||||
| Comments: | This 40-year-old woman with a history of repeatedly submerging her hands in water developed tender erythema and swelling of the proximal nail fold of her right thumb. The loss of cuticle associated with greenish discoloration of the nail plate around the lateral nail folds is typical of infection from Candida which was cultured from the discharge. | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | paronychia_1_021110 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | PARONYCHIA, ACUTE / PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / NAIL DYSTROPHY | Category: | nail disorders / infections and infestations | ||
| Body Site: | nail, hand / hand | Age: | 12 years | ||
| Contributor: | Nader Shaikh, MD, MPH | ||||
| Description: | red tender swollen crusted paronychial area | ||||
| Comments: | This 12 year old boy with longstanding finger warts developed tender swelling of the skin around the middle right finger nail. The paronychial area was crusted with purulent drainage for several days. Warm compresses helped to relieve the pain. He prpbably had an acute paronychia superimposed on chronic infection resulting in transverse grooves in the nail. | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | paronychia_1_010217 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | NAIL DYSTROPHY / PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / CANDIDIASIS | Category: | nail disorders / factitial / self Induced disorders / psychodermatosis | ||
| Body Site: | finger / nail, hand | Age: | 2 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | friable yellow dystrophic nail | ||||
| Comments: | This toddler was fond of sucking on this finger. She developed a chronic paronychia. Culture of scale from the nail grew Candida albicans. | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | fscan51 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | INGROWN TOENAILS, CONGENITAL / PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC | Category: | nail disorders / genodermatosis/genetic disorder | ||
| Body Site: | nail, foot / foot | Age: | 27 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | bilateral ingrown toenails | ||||
| Comments: | This infant had chronic congenital ingrown toe nails with recurrent redness, swelling, tenderness, and drainage at the base of both great toes (fscan52). Note mild involvement of the second toes. fscan53 is a close up of the left foot and fscan51 shows one of the mother's great toes that had been involved much of her life. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images fscan52 fscan53 | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | fscan53 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | INGROWN TOENAILS, CONGENITAL / PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC | Category: | nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | nail, foot / foot | Age: | 3 months | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | bilateral ingrown toenails | ||||
| Comments: | This infant had chronic congenital ingrown toe nails with recurrent redness, swelling, tenderness, and drainage at the base of both great toe nails (fscan52). Note mild involvement of the second toes. fscan53 is a close up of the left foot and fscan51 shows one of the mother's great toes that had been involved much of her life. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images fscan52 fscan51 | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | fscan52 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | INGROWN TOENAILS, CONGENITAL / PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC | Category: | nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | nail, foot / foot | Age: | 3 months | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | bilateral ingrown toenails | ||||
| Comments: | This infant had chronic congenital ingrown toe nails with recurrent redness, swelling, tenderness, and drainage at the base of both great toe nails (fscan52). Note mild involvement of the second toes. fscan53 is a close up of the left foot and fscan51 shows one of the mother's great toes that had been involved much of her life. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images fscan53 fscan51 | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Dscn1044 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | PARONYCHIA, CHRONIC / CANDIDIASIS | Category: | nail disorders | ||
| Body Site: | finger / hand | Age: | 4 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | red, edematous, scaly lateral and proximal nail folds on three fingers with nail dystrophy | ||||
| Comments: | A 4 year old finger sucker developed chronic occasionally painful swelling of three fingers associated with nail dystrophy. Candida albicans was cultured from the proximal nail fold. He eventually stopped sucking on the fingers and the paronychia resolved uneventfully. | ||||
![]() ![]() Books by the Dermatlas Editors | © DermAtlas, Johns Hopkins University; 2000-2009 |
Link directly to this page: http://DermAtlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/result.cfm?Diagnosis=84