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Chest Exam
Nail Diseases: Chart
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Health Care
Professional
02/05/2012

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Term
Azure lunula
Definition
Wilson‟s disease, silver poisoning
Term
Beau’s line
Definition
Any recent systemic illness that disrupts nail growth
Term
Clubbing
Definition
Lung abscess, bronchiectasis, Fallot‟ tetralogy, SBE
Term
Dark longitudinal streaks
Definition
Normal variant in dark skin people, benign nevus or melanoma
Term
Dry brittle nails
Definition
Hypothyroidism, fungal nail infection
Term
Half and half nails
Definition
Renal failure
Term
Koilonychia
Definition
Iron deficiency anemia, SLE, liver disease, malnutrition
Term
Leukonychia
Definition
Iron deficiency anemia, SLE, liver disease, malnutrition
Term
Mees’s lines
Definition
Arsenic poisoning, CHF, Hodgkin‟s lymphoma
Term
Muehrcke’s lines
Definition
Hypoalbuminemia
Term
Onycholysis
Definition
Psoriasis, sarcoidosis, hyperthyroidism
Term
Pitting
Definition
Psoriasis, Reiter‟s syndrome
Term
Puffy nail fold
Definition
Paronychia-nail fold infection
Term
Splinter hemorrhage
Definition
SBE, SLE, RA, trauma
Term
Terry’s lines
Definition
Hepatic failure, cirrhosis, CHF, hyperthyroidism
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Yellow nail syndrome
Definition
RA, diabetes mellitus, bronchiectasis, psoriasis
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