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Normal nail with designation of the individual structures of the nail organ.

Normal nail

Normal nail with smooth nail plate.



Keratotic nail folds in progressive systemic scleroderma.

Hyperkeratotic nail fold with splinter bleeding in progressive systemic scleroderma

Onychodystrophy: with bulging longitudinal grooves and triangular chipping at the free nail edge.

Striped onychodystrophy: harmless, age-related striped onychodystrophy with a girdles-like stripe pattern



Onychodystrophy: apparently single damage (local event because transverse grooves are formed only on one fingernail) of the nail root.

Onychophagia: Nail dystrophy due to constant nail biting.

Onychodystrophy with massive transverse grooves, in chronic eczema of the hands.


Onychodystrophy in chronic paronychia that has been present for years and is intermittent.





Onychodystrophy in acral psoriatic infestation



Yellow-nail syndrome: yellow thickened nails with Beau-Reilscher transverse furrow.

Nail hematoma: stripyfresh nail hematoma

Nail hematoma: stripy fresh nail hematoma, incident light microscopy

Splinter hemorrhage: fresh splinter hemorrhage in previously known systemic scleroderma; conspicuous uniform leukonychia of the nail.

Nail hematoma: sharply limited brown discoloration of the nail matrix; no longitudinal striations



Nail hematoma: " growing out" nail hematoma, an important differential diagnosis to subungual malignant melanoma.

Nail hematomas: traumatic subungal hematomas after jogging.

Nail hematoma: reflected light microscopic image.

nail hematoma: deep black discoloration of the nail plate. discoloration of the cuticle. the distal edge of the nail is not discolored.

Nail green-blackish: discoloration of the nail matrix due to mould infestation.

Nail diseases: so-called tubular nail.
