Nail Dystrophy, Median, Nail Dystrophy, Trauma - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

nail dystrophy, median nail dystrophy trauma

Body Site

nail, hand

Age

9 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

red

Morphology

edema

Pattern

symmetric acral (centripetal - extremity predominant)

Comments

This healthy 9-year-old boy developed recurrent redness and swelling of the cuticles of the thumbnails and median nail dystrophy. He admitted to picking and biting at his thumb nails.

Description

transverse grooves with yellowish-brown discoloration, scale, and fissuring along the middle of the affected nails and edema and erythema of the proximal nail fold

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7/25/2005 8:24:23

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