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Case Reports
. 2010 Feb 23;182(3):E149.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.090501. Epub 2009 Dec 14.

Mees lines and Beau lines after chemotherapy

Tzu-Chuan Huang  1 , Tsu-Yi Chao
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Case Reports

Mees lines and Beau lines after chemotherapy

Tzu-Chuan Huang et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1
(A) Mees lines (arrows) in the fingernails of a 27-year-old woman. (B) Beau lines (arrowheads) in the fingernails of a 41-year-old woman.
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