Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pediatric longitudinal melanonychia should be treated differently from longitudinal melanonychia in adults, as ...

Despite a high frequency of atypical features, longitudinal melanonychia (LM) in children is associated with an exceedingly low rate of malignancy. LM — a pigmented band in the nail plate caused by ...

Hydroxyurea is an antineoplastic agent used most com-monly to treat both benign and malignant hematologic conditions. This medication inhibits ribonucleotide reductase to decrease DNA synthesis and ...

I have had these two vertical dark bands on two fingernails for some time. <BR><BR>Originally I didn't think much of it. But after several months, they still appear on my fingernails, so I have ...

Longitudinal melanonychia is the occurrence of tan, brown, or black pigmented bands along the length of the nail bed. It occurs most often in dark-skinned individuals, and it affects girls more often ...

(HealthDay News) – Intraoperative reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) can be used to diagnose melanonychia striata in the nail matrix. Sébastien Debarbieux, MD, of the Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud in ...

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