Trachyonychia idiopathicaL60.3

Author:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

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Last updated on: 22.01.2023

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idiopathic trachyonychia; twenty-nail dystrophy

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HistoryThis section has been translated automatically.

Alkiewicz, 1950

DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.

Trachyonychia without an identifiable underlying disease. If all nails are affected, this clinical picture is called twenty-nail dystrophy.

Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.

Roughened, white to yellowish changed nail plate with slate-like, coarse lamellar peeling of the nail keratin, so that an irregular, partly thickened, partly diluted surface structure results. Often combined with linear longitudinal nail dystrophies.

TherapyThis section has been translated automatically.

Causal therapies are not known. Treatment successes are unsatisfactory.

LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.

  1. Alkiewicz J (1950) Trachyonychia. Ann Dermatol Venereol 10: 136-140
  2. Grover C et al (2003) Longitudinal nail biopsy: utility in 20-nail dystrophy. Dermatol Surg 29: 1125-1129

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Last updated on: 22.01.2023

Author: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer