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Case Reports
. 2023 Jan-Feb;98(1):96-99.
doi: 10.1016/j.abd.2022.02.005. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

Parrot beak nails: a Latin American case series

Arias-Rodriguez Camilo  1 , Beuth-Ruiz Santiago  2
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Case Reports

Parrot beak nails: a Latin American case series

Arias-Rodriguez Camilo et al. An Bras Dermatol. 2023 Jan-Feb.
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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Images of the 1st patient. (A) First fingernail of the left hand showing PBN deformity. (B) All the fingernails were involved, with associated contracture of all the fingers and atrophy of hand muscles. Second fingernail shows focal plate thickening and brown chromonychia, third fingernail shows onycholysis and yellow chromonychia, and longitudinal melanonychia of third and fourth fingernails is noticed.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Images of the 2nd patient. (A) PBN deformity of the fifth left fingernail. (B) Dermoscopy enhances the visualization of the characteristic nail plate over curvature.
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Image of the 3rd patient. PBN deformity secondary to trauma of the second fingernail, with associated pulp atrophy.
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