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Case Reports
. 2009 Mar 17;180(6):687.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.081312.

Half-and-half nail

Wen-Te Huang  1 , Chia-Chao Wu
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Case Reports

Half-and-half nail

Wen-Te Huang et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: Photograph of the fingernails of a 61-year-old man with chronic renal failure, showing distal pink transverse bands with sharp borders and diffuse whitening of proximal nailbeds.
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References

    1. Lindsay PG. The half-and-half nail. Arch Intern Med 1967;119:583-7. - PubMed
    1. Saray Y, Seckin D, Gulec AT, et al. Nail disorders in hemodialysis patients and renal transplant recipients: a case-control study. J Am Acad Dermatol 2004;50:197-202. - PubMed

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