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Pulmonology. Nail clubbing, also known as digital clubbing or clubbing, is a deformity of the finger or toe nails associated with a number of diseases, anomalies and defects, some congenital. This is mostly of the heart and lungs. [2][3] When it occurs together with joint effusions, joint pains, and abnormal skin and bone growth it is known as ...
Nail clubbing of fingers in a patient with Eisenmenger syndrome. First described by Hippocrates, clubbing is also known as "Hippocratic fingers". Signs and symptoms of Eisenmenger syndrome include the following: [6] Cyanosis (a blue tinge to the skin resulting from lack of oxygen) High red blood cell count; Swollen or clubbed fingertips
A nail disease or onychosis is a disease or deformity of the nail. Although the nail is a structure produced by the skin and is a skin appendage, nail diseases have a distinct classification as they have their own signs and symptoms which may relate to other medical conditions. Some nail conditions that show signs of infection or inflammation ...
Nail Clubbing. LittleThings/Heeral Chhibber Also known as drumstick fingers and watch-glass nails, clubbed nails occur when the nails curve around the fingertips.
It is mainly characterized by pachyderma (thickening of the skin), periostosis (excessive bone formation) and finger clubbing (swelling of tissue with loss of normal angle between nail and nail bed). [1][3] This disease affects more men than women. [1][4] After onset, the disease stabilizes after about 5–20 years.
Bronchiectasis is a disease in which there is permanent enlargement of parts of the airways of the lung. [5] Symptoms typically include a chronic cough with mucus production. [3] Other symptoms include shortness of breath, coughing up blood, and chest pain. [2] Wheezing and nail clubbing may also occur. [2]
Shell nail syndrome is a medical condition defined by the concurrence of large, rounded fingernails and bronchiectasis. [1] Despite the visual similarity between the two conditions, shell nail syndrome and clubbed fingernails are opposites. Shell nail syndrome results from atrophy to the nail bed, whereas clubbed fingernails results from a ...
Beau's lines. Beau's lines are deep grooved lines that run from side to side on the fingernail or the toenail. [1] They may look like indentations or ridges in the nail plate. [2]: 657. This condition of the nail was named by a French physician, Joseph Honoré Simon Beau (1806–1865), who first described it in 1846.