Nail Pathologies Flashcards
Spoon Nails/ Koilonychia
Faulty iron metabolism
Familial inflammatory skin disease
Onychogryphosis
Hypertrophy and curvature trauma or circulatory disorder
Anonychia
Stevens Johnsons syndrome
Epidermolysis bullosa
Absence of nails.
Beau’s lines
Transverse furrows due to systematic illness or trauma.
Onychoschizia
Splitting of distal nail plate into layers due to dehydration of the nail plate.
Half and Half nails
Proximal white distal red
Renal disease
Muehrckes lines
Narrow white transverse bands occuring in pairs.
Hypoalbuminemia.
Mee’s lines
White transverse lines, single or multiple.
Arsenic poisoning.
Onychorrhexis
Brightness with breakage of the nails.
Terr’s Syndrome
Distal 1-2 mm normal pink color, proximal is white.
Cirrhosis
Racquet Nails
Inherited disorder
Medial nail dystrophy
Invertred fir tree appearance.
Due to psych trauma.
Leukonychia
White discoloration of nail plate, bed or matrix.
Yellow Nail syndrome
Pulmonary disease and lymphadema.
