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Congenital or early acquired lateral deviation of one or both big toe nails of unknown cause. Familial occurrence is described (Wagner G 2001). In rare cases the deviation of the nails becomes visible only during or after puberty. Incidence is not known.
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Greyish-yellow discoloured nail plate of the big toe, increasingly curved in the longitudinal and transverse axis, shortened, adherent only in the proximal third of the nail bed, hardly growing. Characteristic are oyster shell-like transverse grooves of the nail plate.
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In about half of the patients the symptoms improve by puberty.
In cases of severe lateral deviation of nail growth and the resulting pressure-related pain symptomatology, surgical correction is recommended at an early stage (Hamm H et al. 2018).
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- Hamm H et al (2018) Diseases of the nails. In: Braun-Falco`s Dermatology, Venereology Allergology G. Plewig et al. (eds) Springer Verlag p 1404.
- Samman PD (1978) Great toe nail dytrophy. Clin Exp Dermatol 3: 81-82
- Wagner G et al (2012) Congenital great toe nail dystrophy. J Dtsch Dermatol 10: 326-330
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