Dermatology Nursing. 2007;19(1):83-84. Athletes may develop sports-related subungual hematomas. Repeated trauma to the nail bed occurs each time the toe contacts the inside of the sneaker.
A 22-year-old woman presented with intermittently painful subungual keratotic tumors of the hands as a late manifestation of incontinentia pigmenti. Scalloped bony deformities of the distal ...
A biopsy was performed, and eight weeks later, the results revealed it was subungual melanoma, a type of acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM). "Knowing what I know, this diagnosis was music to my ears ...
The tumor was excised and histological examination revealed a lobulated, well-vascularized mass with CD31-positive endothelium, loose connective tissue, and no cutaneous adnexal structures.
The stages of subungual melanoma follow the typical staging for all types of melanoma cancers: stage 0 through stage 4. The condition of the tumor, whether or not the cancer has reached the nearby ...
Brown or black spots under the nail are usually the result of a hematoma but can also suggest the presence of a tumor. Specific ... the nails may be a symptom of subungual melanoma.
Onychopapilloma, a benign tumor of the nail bed ... common clinical feature was longitudinal erythronychia, while distal subungual hyperkeratosis was the predominant dermoscopic finding[1].