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supernumerary nails of the fingers and toes: Polyonychia from congenital polysyndactyly: Specialty: Medical genetics: Symptoms: Having two or more finger/toenails on a single digit: Complications: Social insecurity: Usual onset: Birth (congenital), post-traumatic (acquired) Duration: Life-long (unless it's corrected) Treatment: Plastic surgery ...
This nail averages 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) in length. [3] The additional nail can be cut with a nail clipper. Its occurrence is considered common but underreported. [4] The entire nail of the small toe is usually short and wide, and both nails often share the same nail bed. [4]
Onychomadesis is a periodic idiopathic shedding of the nails beginning at the proximal end, possibly caused by the temporary arrest of the function of the nail matrix. [ 1 ] : 784 [ 2 ] : 660 One cause in children is hand, foot, and mouth disease . [ 3 ]
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An imbalanced thyroid can lead to hair loss, brittle and thin nails. Striped nails Short horizontal white marks or streaks are likely the result of trauma to the base of your nail.
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.
While Beau's lines are actual ridges and indentations in the nail plate, Muehrcke lines are areas of hypopigmentation without palpable ridges; they affect the underlying nail bed, and not the nail itself. Beau's lines should also be distinguished from Mees' lines of the fingernails, which are areas of discoloration in the nail plate.
Muehrcke's lines were described by American physician Robert C. Muehrcke (1921–2003) in 1956. In a study published in BMJ, he examined patients with known chronic hypoalbuminemia and healthy volunteers, finding that the appearance of multiple transverse white lines was a highly specific marker for low serum albumin (no subject with the sign had SA over 2.2 g/dL), was associated with severity ...