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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.
Mom's Stage 4 Melanoma Spread from Fingernail to Brain, Says She 'Begged for' Scans That Could Have Caught It Sooner. Cara Lynn Shultz. January 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM. Kelly Heather / SWNS (2)
It was the sign of rare, aggressive subungual melanoma. She got a 2nd opinion, advocated for herself. A thin black line from the cuticle kept growing. It was the sign of rare, aggressive subungual ...
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a type of skin cancer. [6] It typically begins as a uniform brownish mark before becoming darker and wider with a blurred, irregular border. ALM is most frequently seen on the foot of a person with darker skin but can also be found in non-sun exposed areas such as the palms , soles , and under finger and ...
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 ...
Hutchinson's sign is a clinical sign which may refer to: . Hutchinson's pupil, an unresponsive and enlarged pupil on the side of an intracranial mass; Vesicles on the tip of the nose, or vesicles on the side of the nose, precedes the development of ophthalmic herpes zoster. [1]
Maria Sylvia shared on TikTok how she discovered that a streak on her thumbnail for 10 years turned into rare, subungual melanoma. She hopes to raise awareness. She had a streak on her nail for 10 ...
A glomus tumor (also known as a "solitary glomus tumor" [1]) is a rare neoplasm arising from the glomus body and mainly found under the nail, on the fingertip or in the foot. [2]: 670 They account for less than 2% of all soft tissue tumors. [3] The majority of glomus tumors are benign, but they can also show malignant features. [4]