When Your Nail Roots Turn Red: More Than a Beauty Concern Certain diseases can show up in subtle ways on your body, even ...
(1449865087/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Underlying, less visible health problems sometimes manifest themselves through ...
Clinical presentation: Pitting, nonspecific onycholysis (lifting of the nail from the nail bed), hyperkeratosis (thick nails), and yellowish-brown spots under the nail plate should prompt ...
Diagnosing conditions of the nail can be confounding. Patients may experience delays in treatment due to challenges in diagnosis. While the nail may seem like a cosmetic concern, nail diseases can ...
Your fingernails are constantly sending health signals that most people completely ignore until serious disease has already developed. Changes in nail color, texture, thickness, and growth patterns ...
When doctors examine patients, they often look beyond the presenting symptoms to gather additional diagnostic information. Fingernails, frequently overlooked by patients, provide physicians with ...
Habit-tic deformity is a traumatic nail dystrophy that results from habitual picking of the proximal nail fold margin. 4 The most common location is the thumbnail; however, all fingernails can be ...