We report a 6-year-old girl who received a left-lobe live-related liver transplant for decompensated liver disease after a failed Kasai's surgery for biliary atresia. Preoperatively, her nails were white, dystrophic, brittle with severe onycholysis, clubbing and watch-glass deformities. Nail scrapings were negative for fungus. Five months after transplantation, her nails had become near normal....

It has been recently observed that sodium and potassium concentrations in the nails of cases of cystic fibrosis are higher than in those of controls (Kopito and Shwachman, 1964; Kopito et al., 1965). The original method described is complicated and time consuming. The purpose of this study is to present the results obtained with a simpler procedure for the estimation of sodium and potassium in ...

Dear Editor, A 10-year-old boy presented with progressive thickening of the nails over the previous 5 years. He did not have any other cutaneous and/or systemic symptoms. He was born to healthy non-consanguineous parents following an uneventful pregnancy. Upon examination, he was found to have symmetrical involvement of the finger and toenails with marked hard thickening of the distal portion o...

The nail, the largest of the skin adnexa, is unique to primates and appears to have evolved from the claw of lower animals.' It has many functions,' the most important of which is prehension. Without nails our ability to grasp and manipulate objects would be limited. Nails also protect the delicate distal phalanx and the soft tissues of the distal digit. For man, the nail is also of cosmetic im...

OBJECTIVE We describe a new technique for removing the distal fragments of broken intramedullary femoral nails without disturbing the nonunion site. METHODS This technique involves the application of an AO distractor prior to the removal of the nail fragments, with subsequent removal of the proximal nail fragment in an anterograde fashion and removal of the distal fragment through a medial pa...

The objective of the current study was to compare quantitative data on the biomechanical analysis of different techniques for fixation of intercalary bone defects of the humerus, by means of consistently applied methodology on composite models. A total of 25 humeral specimens of composite models were used. An intercalary defect was created and reconstructed using plates, intramedullary nails, e...

This study used hair and nails to biomonitor heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Cr and Cu) from geological source and exposure through regular fish consumption among children in Lake Victoria, Kenya. Concentration of Pb and Cu in water reflected anthropogenic pathways, while Cd and Cr reflected accumulation from the catchment basin. Higher concentration of heavy metals in the nails samples than the hair sam...

I. Changes in skin color range from pallor (from anemia) to hyperpigmentation II. Xerosis, or dry skin, results from significant atrophy of sebaceous and sweat glands II. Premature skin aging is common IV. Lindsay nails (so-called half-and-half nails) occur when the proximal two thirds of the nail is white with normal or dark discoloration distally V. Dermal vessels show basement membrane thick...