DESCRIPTION A 54-year-old diabetic female patient with type 2 diabetes of 7 years’ duration presented with pain in her big toe. She had previously sustained foot ulceration several times and hence worried for recurrence. On examination she had a laminated, thickened, dark yellow toe nail of an extremely rare structure (figure1). Onychodystrophy, which is a widely used term referring to nail def...

Onychomycosis, the fungal infection of nail is a common occurrence. The conventional fungi implicated are dermatophytes and Candida species. Non-dermatophytic moulds account for few cases and Chaetomium globosum is an exceptional agent. This characteristically involves the toe nails which are dystrophic and discoloured yellow-brown. Direct microscopy shows brown septate hyphae. Isolate is rapid...

Fig. 1. Schematic of one stage bone transport procedure (yellow bone, red periosteum). A portion of diaphyseal bone is denuded of periosteum, osteotomized, and transported over an intramedullary nail to the site of the 2.54-cm critical-sized defect, where it is docked to the distal femur. The periosteal sheath is left in situ to surround the new defect site, leading to full infilling of the new...

Yellow nail syndrome (YNS) is characterized by yellowish nails, lymphedema, sinusitis, and pulmonary involvement and can be triggered by various underlying conditions, such as sinusitis or titanium exposure from an artificial joint or dental implant. Since YNS is potentially treatable, its timely diagnosis is important. The authors recently experienced a case of YNS in a patient who developed s...

Fig. 1. Schematic of one-stage bone-transport procedure (yellow – bone, red – periosteum). A portion of diaphyseal bone is denuded of periosteum, osteotomized, and transported over an intramedullary nail to the site of the 2.54-cm critical-sized defect, where it is docked to the distal femur. The periosteal sheath is left in situ to surround the new defect site, leading to full infilling of the...

Background: Nail biting (NB) is a common, but unresolved, problem in psychiatry, psychology, medicine and dentistry. It is the habit of biting one’s nails, is commonly observed in both children and young adults Materials & Methods: The study was a comparative cross‐ sectional microbiological study, conducted on the saliva samples of 40 chronic nail biting subjects in that 20 were males and 20 w...