Background: The nails of hands and feet are involved in the course of many dermatoses and some systemic diseases. They may have diagnostic or prognostic value in some diseases. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate nail lesions in patients referred to Dermatology Department of Sina Hospital in Hamadan from April 1999 to April 2000. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional des...

One study analyzed all visits to a nail consultation practice over a sixmonth period, revealing forty-four patients who had been prescribed the B-vitamin biotin. Of these, thirty-five who took daily supplementation were subjectively evaluated. Twenty-two of thirty-five (63 percent) showed clinical improvement and thirteen (37 percent) reported no change in their condition. The results of this r...

an 8-year old boy with polyarthritis and nail involvement is presented in this report. nail involvement in reiter's syndrome is a rare condition that may include painless erythematous nduration of the base of the nail fold; subungual parakeratotic scaling and thickening opacification, ridging of the nail plate.

edema and other systemic complications were frequently obseryed in both drug-induced and spontaneous YNS asseciated with RA. Although the nail changes and systemie complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic eomplications are necessarr in patients who deyelop nail changes. The exact mechanism of nail growth retardation is not understood ...

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a new syndrome and to describe three examples of chronic pleural effusion due to chronic lymphoedema. Before encountering these patients I had never previously considered chronic lymphoedema as a cause of chronic pleural effusion: it is certainly not described in any standard textbook, although it was tentatively referred to in one in 1963 (Robs...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurs in 15% of adults. The aim the study was to evaluate occurrence and clinical features onychomycosis patients with CKD receiving hemodialysis. A comprised 25 (51±22 years) nail changes chronic renal failure under haemodialysis (53.6 ± 26.4 without CKD. For CKD, «yellow nails» are typical – 17 (68%), longitudinal stripes 16 (64%). Onychomycosis diagnosed 32% 64%...

Malignant Melanoma is a high mortality neoplasm. The involvement of the nail apparatus is rare, with only 2 out of 3 patients seeking medical attention as the result of recent nail melanocytic lesions. This results in late diagnosis and a prognosis worse than cutaneous melanoma. We report a female, presenting with ulcerative lesions with clinical and laboratory features compatible with leishman...