BACKGROUND AND AIM Nail manifestations are often an overlooked aspect in psoriatic disease, cutaneous and joint involvement being far more often reported and investigated. The reported prevalence of nail changes varies in literature, specific fingernail clinical features having different degrees of occurrence. The aim of this study was to describe specific clinical patterns of fingernail altera...

Editor Alterations in the structure and appearance of the nail unit may be seen in association with a variety of dermatological disorders. 1 Because of the limited number of reaction patterns associated with the nail unit, many of the changes that are seen, such as onycholysis, pitting and subungual hyperkeratosis, are not specific. However, certain clinical findings, especially when present in...

Psoriasis is one of the most frequent inflammatory skin disorders in Caucasians. It is a genetically determined disease that affects the skin, scalp and nails. It is characterized by sharply demarcated erythematous plaques with silvery scales, which appear typically on the knees, elbows, sacral region and scalp, but the entire skin may be involved. Nail changes include distal onycholysis, pitti...

BACKGROUND Superficial nail abnormalities include conditions which produce nail surface changes such as trachyonychia, pitting and ridging. Mostly, this is a neglected area due to the dearth of treatment options. Glycolic acid peeling has been reported to be effective in such cases. AIM This study aims to assess the safety and efficacy of medium depth peels (70% glycolic acid versus phenol co...

Nail involvement is part of the clinical spectrum of psoriatic disease and is microanatomically associated with distal interphalangeal joint (DIPJ) entheses. Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors have shown efficacy for psoriasis, arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis and nail disease. Given the intimate links between psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and nail disease, it might be expected that nail dise...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients with psoriasis, and to identify risk factors for its development. METHODS The study was designed as a prospective cohort study involving psoriasis patients who did not have a diagnosis of arthritis at the time of study enrollment. Information was collected about lifestyle habits, comorbidities, psoriasis activity, an...

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...

BACKGROUND To study the impact of psoriasis and features associated with psoriasis on classification and outcome in a population-based follow-up cohort of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS In all, 440 children with JIA were followed for a median of 8 years in a prospective Nordic population-based cohort study. Data for remission was available for 427 of these children...

This study was an attempt on the part of the author to find out the incidence and various clinicoepidemiological characteristics of AA in VSS medical College, Burla, Western Odisha. The study was carried on 70 Patients of AA attending the OPD, out of which 88% of the cases were of AA classical type (Patchy). The age group of 21-30 years showed maximum prevalence of AA (43%). 57% of the patients...