Abstract |
Congenital micronychia may involve big toes or may involve other nails. The etiology of micronychia is not clear but amniotic bands, teratogens (drugs, alcohol), Nail Patella Syndrome etc. A 44-year-old woman with multiple isolated congenital micronychia over her hands and feet was selected. The major affected nails were thumbs and Index fingers. Surgical method were done step by step: Anesthesia of the area, extraction of short nail, elevation of nail bed, longitudinal nail bed incisions, suturing the lateral nail bed to the nail wall, covering the nail bed by a splint of plastic suction tube, bandage with gauze Vaseline. Finally, we hypnotized that in congenital micronychia, the main pathology is in nail bed; through this theory by nail bed expansion better outcomes are coming.
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Authors | Gholamhossein Ghaffarpour, Alireza Faghihi, Mohammadreza Ghasemi, Gelareh Ghaffarpour |
Journal | Advanced biomedical research
(Adv Biomed Res)
Vol. 3
Pg. 105
( 2014)
ISSN: 2277-9175 [Print] India |
PMID | 24804179
(Publication Type: Case Reports)
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