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18 Cards in this Set
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A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral nail folds adjacent to the nail plate, often red, swollen, and tender.
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Paronychia
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Infection (usually staph aureus or strep) that may arise from nail biting, local trauma, manicuring, or frequent hand immersion in water.
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Paronychia
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A bulbous swelling of the tissue at the nail base, with loss of normal angle (> 180 deg) b/t the nail and proximal nail fold.
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Clubbing of the fingers
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Nail bed feels spongy or floating; seen in congenital heart disease, lung cancer and diseases, IBS, and malignancies.
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Clubbing of the fingers
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Systemic causes include:
diabetes, anemia, photosensitive drug rxns, hyperthyroidism, peripheral ischemia, bronchiectasis, and syphilis. |
Onycholysis
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A painless seperation of the whitened opaque nail plate from the pinker transluscent nail bed.
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Onycholysis
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Onycholysis progresses from distal to proximal, enlarging the free edge of the nail. |
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Local causes include trauma from excess manicuring, psoriasis, fungal infections, and allergic rxns to nail cosmetics.
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Onycholysis
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Nail plate turns white with a ground-glass appearance, a distal band of reddish brown, and obliteration of the lunula.
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Terry's nails
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May arise from decreased vascularity and increased connective tissue in nail bed.
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Terry's nails
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White spots commonly following trauma that slowly grow out with nail.
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Leukonychia
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Transverse curving white bands that cross the nail parallel to the lunula that grow out distally with the nails.
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Transverse white bands (Mees' lines)
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Seen in arsenic poisoning, heart failure, Hodgkin's disease, chemotherapy, CO poisoning, and leprosy.
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Transverse white bands (Mees' lines)
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Transverse depressions of the nail plates, usually bilaterally, resulting from temporary disruption of nail growth from systemic illness.
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Transverse linear depressions (Beau's lines)
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Normal nail growth measurement.
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1 mm every 6-10 days
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Seen in severe illness, trauma, and cold exposure if Raynaud's disease is present.
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Transverse linear depressions (Beau's lines)
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Punctate depressions of the nail plate by defective layering of the superficial nail plate by the proximal nail matrix.
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Pitting
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Usually associated with psoriasis but also seen in Reiter's syndrome, sarcoidosis, alopecia areata, and localized atopic or chemical dermatitis.
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Pitting
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