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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 ...
Kelly Heather, 38, ended up needing brain surgery for a tumor — and it started as a discolored line on her fingernail Mom's Stage 4 Melanoma Spread from Fingernail to Brain, Says She 'Begged for ...
A thin black line from the cuticle kept growing. It was the sign of rare, aggressive subungual melanoma. She got a 2nd opinion, advocated for herself.
Melanoma is a group of serious skin cancers that arise from pigment cells (melanocytes); acral lentiginous melanoma is a kind of lentiginous [8] skin melanoma. [6] ALM makes up less than 5% of all melanomas, but is considered the most common subtype in people with darker skin and is rare in people with lighter skin types. [9]
Melanonychia is a black or brown pigmentation of a nail, and may be present as a normal finding on many digits in Afro-Caribbeans, as a result of trauma, systemic disease, or medications, or as a postinflammatory event from such localized events as lichen planus or fixed drug eruption. [1]: 790 [2]: 665
Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus (Spitzoid melanoma) Melanoma with small nevus-like cells (small cell melanoma) Mucosal melanoma; Nevoid melanoma; Nodular melanoma; Polypoid melanoma; Seborrheic keratosis-like melanoma; Soft-tissue melanoma (clear-cell sarcoma, melanoma of the soft parts) Superficial spreading melanoma (superficially ...
Are your fingernails yellow, brown, black, or another color? Doctors explain the different causes of nail discoloration, and what to do in each case.
Repeatedly thrusting the toes against a shoe's toe box can cause a subungual hematoma called jogger's toe, [8] runner's toe, or black toenail. In a marathon, several percent of runners may be affected. [4] Wearing footwear which fits helps prevent runner's toe. [4]