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Dermatologist Lindsey Zubritsky is “begging” her 1.4 million TikTok followers to check their nails for a vertical line, which could indicate a subungual melanoma, a rare, but serious skin cancer.
A subungual hematoma is a collection of blood underneath a toenail or fingernail. It can be extremely painful for an injury of its size, although otherwise it is not a serious medical condition. It can be extremely painful for an injury of its size, although otherwise it is not a serious medical condition.
Subungual hematoma occurs when trauma to the nail results in a collection of blood, or hematoma, under the nail. It may result from an acute injury or from repeated minor trauma such as running in undersized shoes. Acute subungual hematomas are quite painful, and are usually treated by releasing the blood by creating a small hole in the nail.
Whitlow usually refers to herpetic whitlow, though it can also refer to melanotic whitlow (subungual melanoma), [7] which somewhat resembles acral lentiginous melanoma. The terms whitlow and felon are also sometimes misapplied to paronychia, which is an infection of the tissue at the side or base of the nail. Felon presents with a throbbing ...
Neoplasms of the nailbed may often present with paronychia, ingrown nail, onycholysis, pyogenic granuloma, nail-plate dystrophy, longitudinal erythronychia, bleeding, and discolorations.
Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer; it develops from the melanin-producing cells known as melanocytes. [1] It typically occurs in the skin, ...
Periungual/subungual: around or under a fingernail or toenail Blaschkoid : following the path of Blaschko's lines in the skin Photodistributed : in places where sunlight reaches
[8] [4] Melanoma is an infrequent differential diagnosis, which must be ruled out in hard-to-treat cases. [4] Other differential diagnoses include hematoma and fungal infections ( onychomycosis ). [ 8 ]