Melanonychia striata longitudinalis: approx. 0.2 cm wide, dark brown strip of the nail. nail fold very discreetly affected (see inlet). only 1 fingernail is affected. a clinical control (photo documentation) with measurement of the width of the pigment strip is recommended.
Melanonychia striata longitudinalis (2): control finding in 2016. widening of the longitudinal pigmentation of the nail plate. clear Hutchinson sign (pigmentation of the nail fold)
Nail hematoma: Apparently caused by repetitive trauma (probably triggered by a trauma from frontal trauma, e.g. during a football match), transverse bleeding, the growing nail area is normally stained.
Onychogrypose (complicatively superimposed): moderately pronounced onychogrypose in an 18-year-old soccer player's ring, here complicatively superimposed by onychomycosis, recognizable by the yellowish streaky discoloration
Meese transverse ligaments: Pre-existing Sézary syndrome. Distinct whitish transverse ligaments of the nails, of which proximally situated discrete leukonychia.
Meesche transverse ligaments: 56 year old woman. 3 months before the present picture was taken, the patient had severe bronchitis. The symmetrical white transverse ligament of all fingernails indicates the temporary, systemic disturbance of the organism. Picture from the collection of Dr. med. Eva Kämmerer
half and half nail: zonal, sharply bordered white coloration of the proximal and brown coloration of the distal nail plate. slight acrocyanosis. no underlying disease remembered. known is a polyneuropathy
Illustration was kindly provided by Dr. med. H. Luther/Essen.
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