
Nail diseases (overview) L60.8
Nail hematoma: " growing out" nail hematoma, an important differential diagnosis to subungual malignant melanoma.

Melanoma acrolentiginous C43.7 / C43.7
DD: acrolentiginous malignant melanoma: here: Melanonychia longitudinalis:stripy (melanotic) nail pigmentation caused by a (still benign) pigment nevus localized in the (not visible) nail matrix. The anterior cut edge of the nail plate is pigment-bearing (marked with an arrow). An initial malignant melanomacan be excluded histologically with certainty.

Glomus tumor D18.01

Nail hematoma T14.05
Hematoma, nail hematoma, bluish discoloration of the nail fold and proximal nail area.

Nail hematoma T14.05
Hematoma, nail hematoma: growing nail hematoma . left initial situation, right 8 weeks later. note: the nail matrix shows no discoloration at the cutting edge (marked by arrows)!

Glomus tumor D18.01

Nail diseases (overview) L60.8
Nail green-blackish: discoloration of the nail matrix due to mould infestation.

Melanoma acrolentiginous C43.7 / C43.7
melanoma, malignant, acrolentiginous. incident light microscopy. streaky, brown (melanotic) hyperpigmentation of the nail plate. complicating superimposition: fresh, red splatter-like bleeding after still recallable trauma).

Melanoma acrolentiginous C43.7 / C43.7
Melanonychia striata longitudinalis: DD- subungual malignant melanoma; look for the discoloration of the cuticle (so-called Hutchinson's sign), as an indication of involvement of the nail root

Nail hematoma T14.05
Nail hematoma: direct comparison of the outgrowing nail hematoma. Lower left after 8 weeks. On the right the reflected light microscopic images.

Nail hematoma T14.05
Nail hematoma: sharply distally limited discoloration of the big toe nail. nail matrix at the distal cutting edge unchanged. no longitudinal striation of the nail.

Striated leukonychia L60.8
Leuconychia striata: General view: Whitish horizontal stripes in the nail plates in a 48-year-old female patient with Raynaud's symptoms existing since 6 months; slight acrocyanosis.

Meese cross bands L60.8
Meese transverse ligaments: Pre-existing Sézary syndrome. Distinct whitish transverse ligaments of the nails, of which proximally situated discrete leukonychia.

Nail dyschromia L60.8
Chloronychia (around green nails): bland-greenishdiscoloration of the nail, little finger, bacterial nail infection (dermatoscopicpicture).

Striated leukonychia L60.8
Dermatoscopy: Periodic, stripe-shaped (since years existing) white coloration of the nail plate in a 50-year-old woman, middle finger.

Nail diseases (overview) L60.8
Striped onychodystrophy: harmless, age-related striped onychodystrophy with a girdles-like stripe pattern

Hutchinson sign i C43.6
Pseudo-Hutchinson, sign (hematoma). hemosiderotic pigmentation of the nail fold. age-related nail (longitudinal stripes) with fine spiltter hemorrhages.

Striated leukonychia L60.8
Leuconychia striata: White horizontal stripes in the nail plate of the fingernail after manicure damage (Meese'stransverse bands).

Erythronychia longitudinalis; L60.9 L60.8

Nail hematoma T14.05
Nail hematoma: not quite fresh subungual hematoma, after shock injury, bleeding under the proximal nail fold.