Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines

Nail abnormalities are an indicator of systemic disease but are always neglected during clinic visit. Here, we report a rare case of Muehrcke’s lines accompany with normal range serum albumin after chemotherapy, unlike the hypoalbuminemia in most cases, which suggest malnutrition is not the only cau...

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Autores principales: Chang, Xiaosong, Zhen, Peng, Zeng, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1642
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description Nail abnormalities are an indicator of systemic disease but are always neglected during clinic visit. Here, we report a rare case of Muehrcke’s lines accompany with normal range serum albumin after chemotherapy, unlike the hypoalbuminemia in most cases, which suggest malnutrition is not the only cause of Muehrcke’s lines.
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spelling pubmed-60990502018-08-24 Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines Chang, Xiaosong Zhen, Peng Zeng, Jian Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Nail abnormalities are an indicator of systemic disease but are always neglected during clinic visit. Here, we report a rare case of Muehrcke’s lines accompany with normal range serum albumin after chemotherapy, unlike the hypoalbuminemia in most cases, which suggest malnutrition is not the only cause of Muehrcke’s lines. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6099050/ /pubmed/30147932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1642 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chang, Xiaosong
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Zeng, Jian
Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title_full Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title_fullStr Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title_full_unstemmed Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title_short Fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: Muehrcke’s lines
title_sort fingernails changes associated with chemotherapy in breast cancer: muehrcke’s lines
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1642
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