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Case Reports
. 2008 Jun;22(6):759-60.
doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2007.02465.x. Epub 2007 Nov 6.

Clinical pitfalls: a painful nail enlargement

C Cantisani, E Cigna, D M Miller, V Cantisani, F Solivetti, G M Andreoli, N Scuderi, S Calvieri
Case Reports

Clinical pitfalls: a painful nail enlargement

C Cantisani et al. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2008 Jun.
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Advanced subungual hyperkeratosis resulting in uplifting of the nail plate with distal nail bed, ‘oil spot’ involvement of nearly the entire nail bed and hyponychial involvement.
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Real-time US using 13-MHZ linear probe; sonographic longitudinal section of the distal interphalangeal joint showed well-defined thickness of the nail matrix and nail bed, with slight eye catching signal at power Doppler, together with superficial soft tissue thickening at the distal phalanx.
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