Severe Onycholysis in a Card Illusionist with Alopecia Areata Universalis

In patients with alopecia areata (AA), nail abnormalities due to nail matrix inflammation are common and usually not severe. We report the case of a 23-year-old man with AA universalis, who developed severe abnormalities of all his fingernails. Systemic steroids improved the onycholysis that had an...

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Autores principales: Tosti, Antonella, Pazzaglia, Massimiliano, Venturi, Michela, Chiacchio, Nilton Chiacchio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24403770
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.122966
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author Tosti, Antonella
Pazzaglia, Massimiliano
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description In patients with alopecia areata (AA), nail abnormalities due to nail matrix inflammation are common and usually not severe. We report the case of a 23-year-old man with AA universalis, who developed severe abnormalities of all his fingernails. Systemic steroids improved the onycholysis that had an important impact on the patient's job, as he was a card illusionist.
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spelling pubmed-38774782014-01-08 Severe Onycholysis in a Card Illusionist with Alopecia Areata Universalis Tosti, Antonella Pazzaglia, Massimiliano Venturi, Michela Chiacchio, Nilton Chiacchio Int J Trichology Case Report In patients with alopecia areata (AA), nail abnormalities due to nail matrix inflammation are common and usually not severe. We report the case of a 23-year-old man with AA universalis, who developed severe abnormalities of all his fingernails. Systemic steroids improved the onycholysis that had an important impact on the patient's job, as he was a card illusionist. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3877478/ /pubmed/24403770 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.122966 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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