Three hundred leprosy patients were recruited to study the pattern and frequency of nail changes. Nail changes, like longitudinal ridging in finger nails, transverse striations involving both finger and toe nails etc. which occurred with similar frequency in the PB and MB patients in comparison with the control group, were excluded from the analysis. Out of a total number of 150 PB patients, 84...

background: nail disorders comprise approximately 10% of all dermatological conditions. abnormalities in the color of nails are called ungal dyschromia or chromonychia. ungual dyschromia may be endogenous or exogenous. yellow discoloration of the nails has been reported during the last years as separate observation related to drug administration, during hemodialysis and associated with pulmonar...

Femur fractures in preschool children are mostly treated in a conservative way, by means of spica cast immobilisation or skin traction. In school age children the use of flexible intramedullary nails (FIN) is widely used and promoted. We performed intramedullary nailing in 9 preschool children aged 1.5-6 years. The mean length of postoperative hospital stay was 4 days (range: 3 to 6). The mean ...

background: the present study aimed to investigate the nailfold capillaroscopy (nc) features of the patients with dermatomyositis (dm) and its correlation with their disease activity indices, physical findings, and laboratory results. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted on 27 dm patients above 16 years old who had referred to an(there are 3 clinics not one) outpatient rheum...

Flexible intramedullary nailing is gaining popularity as an effective method of treating long-bone fractures in children. We retrospectively reviewed the records and radiographs of 56 unstable fractures of the tibia in 54 children treated between March 1997 and May 2005. All were followed up for at least two months after the removal of the nails. Of the 56 tibial fractures, 13 were open. There ...

Pathologic hoof changes in horses and swine can be normalized by administration of biotin. This vitamin has been given orally to women with brittle fingernails or onychoschizia. The aim of the study was to test whether the favorable clinical results could be corroborated by scanning electron microscopy. We investigated the distal ends of the fingernails from 32 persons. They were placed into th...

The fluoride content in the urine, hair, and nails of 106 workers employed in a phosphate fertiliser plant was significantly raised above the control level. Positive correlations were found between the group means for concentrations of fluorides in urine and hair (r = 0.77), urine and nails (r = 0.99), and hair and nails (r = 0.70). Individual values in the whole population gave significant cor...