Name
NAILS, AFFECTION
DESCRIPTION
DETAIL
CAUSES : - PSORIASIS - PITTING OF NAIL , DISCOLORATION & ONYCHOLYSIS - FUNGAL INFECTION - DISCOLORED , FRIABLE & THICHENED NAIL OR HEAPING OF TISSUE UNDER NAIL PLATE - DERMATITIS - ROUGHENING & CROSS RIDGING OF NAIL PLATE & PITTING - EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA - PEMPHIGUS - EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS - LICHEN PLANUS ( RARE ) - DARIER DISEASE ( RARE ) - ALOPECIA AREATA - CHR PARONYCHIA - DUE TO CANDIDA & BACTERIAL INFECTION HAS POCKETS UNDER POST. NAILFOLDS - PACHYONYCHIA CONGENITA - TROPHIC CHANGES - BEAU LINES OR TRANSVERSE FURROWS FORMED IN ACUTE ILLNESS - LONGITUDINAL RIDGING - IDIOPATHIC - KOILONYCHIA - IRON DEFICIENCY - PAIRED NARROW WHITE BANDS - HYPO - ALBUMINAEMIA - WHITE NAILS - CIRRHOSIS LIVER , CHF , PUL TUBERCULOSIS , DIABETES , RHEU. ARTHRITIS & FEW CARCINOMAS - ONYCHOGRYPHOSIS - HYPERTROPHY OF THE NAILS - LEUCONYCHIA TOTALIS - RARE CONGENITAL ANOMALY CAUSING WHITENESS OF WHOLE NAIL PLATE - PARONYCHIA OR ONYCHIA - TRAUMA - RAYNAUD DISEASE OR PHENOMENON - YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME - OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH LYMPHOEDEMA & VARIOUS PUL ABNORMALITIES - SPLINTER HAEMORRHAGES
TYPENOTES
RELATED DISEASE
Not Available Disease
DISEASE
INVESTIGATION
COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT, KOH PREPARATION FOR FUNGUS, PUS CULTURE TEST