Leprosy, a disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, primarily affects the skin and nerves, but the nails are also involved in as many as 3 out of 4 patients .The factors that trigger nail changes in leprosy are numerous and include repeated trauma, neuropathy, vascular impairment, infections, lepra reactions, and the drugs used to manage the disease. The changes most often reported include subun...

Occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in the nail is rare [1], although it is the most common epithelial malignancy of the nail apparatus [1, 2]. Less than 300 cases of subungual SCC (invasive or in situ) have been reported in the English-language literature [2]. The clinical diagnosis of this type of tumor may be difficult and is often missed and/or delayed because of the heterogeneity o...