DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Frequent and unspecific symptom of many changes in the nail apparatus.
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Some causes of painful nail:
- Splinters and foreign bodies
- Finger bruises
- Injuries caused by sports shoes
- Frostbite
- Ingrown toenails
- childhood nail misalignment
- Common type of ingrown toenails
- Inflammation at:
- Acute (and chronic) paronychia
- Subcutaneous abscess caused by:
- Subungual foreign body
- Tuberculosis cutis verrucosa
- terminal osteitis
- herpes simplex
- Cryosurgery (can lead to very long lasting bone pain)
- pterygium inversum unguis
- Dorsolateral fissures
- Tubular nail, especially heavy forms enclosing the bone
- Acroosteolysis
- Implantation cyst
- Sarcoid dactylitis.
- Tumours of the soft tissue and bones:
- Subungual glomus tumor
- Subungual wart ( Verrucae perionychiales)
- Subungual clavus
- Subungual papilloma in Incontinentia pigmenti
- Keratoacanthoma
- Bowen, M.
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Secondary infection in slow-growing tumours
- Leiomyoma
- Some neuromas
- Fibroma
- osteoma cutis
- Exostosis
- Enchondrome ( Maffucci syndrome)
- Osteoid osteoma
- Aneurysmatic bone cyst
- Myxoid pseudocyst ( mucoid dorsal cyst).
- Vascular causes:
- Rheumatoid vasculitis.
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Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer