Increasing great toe pain in a patient with soft tissue swelling and nail enlargement

Subungual Nail Pigmentation and Malalignment of the Great Toe Nail in a Cancer Patient - A Diagnostic Challenge

Subungual pigmentation may have a variety of underlying pathologies, but clinicians should consider malignancies such as subungual melanoma or metastasis, even if they are not common. A delayed diagnosis can dramatically worsen the prognosis. Therefore, histologic examination is highly recommended. We present a 75-year-old female cancer patient presenting with subungual blackish pigmentation of...

Great toe pain in a competitive tennis athlete.

As a variably occurring sesamoid, the hallucal interphalangeal sesamoid can significantly alter the biomechanics of the great toe. With modifications to the way the great toe functions, there are pathologies that inevitably arise. These pathologies can be quite serious and debilitating. While clinicians may take a conservative approach to treatment and focus on alleviating the symptoms, the phy...

Synovial hemangiohamartoma presenting as knee pain, swelling and a soft tissue mass: a case report

INTRODUCTION We present a case of a patient with juxtaarticular hemangiohamartoma with a synovial extension associated with hemorrhagic synovitis and recurrent spontaneous hemarthrosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 21-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of pain and swelling at her knee for 6 months. In the magnetic resonance imaging, T2-weighted and fat-suppressed scans r...

Soft tissue swelling in an Arabian gelding.

Ingrowing Toe-Nail

only two facts on which all are agreed. The first is, that the complaint is caused by the wearing of tight boots; the second, that it is not ingrowing of the toe-nail at all, but overgrowing of the toe-flesh. With reference to the first point, it seems to have struck no one as peculiar that the leaving off tight boots is by no means a cure for the malady. Sublata causa, tollitxir effectus ought...