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Case Reports
. 2018 Mar 28:2018:bcr2018224978.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-224978.

Beau's lines

Aditya Jandial  1 , Kundan Mishra  1 , Gaurav Prakash  1 , Pankaj Malhotra  1
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Case Reports

Beau's lines

Aditya Jandial et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: dermatology; drugs and medicines; haematology (drugs and medicines); malignant and benign haematology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Clinical photograph of the patient’s nail in bird’s-eye view showing ridges over nail (A). Side on view showing horizontal ridges with trough in between, typical of Beau’s line (B).
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