Onychoptosis: A forgotten sign in syphilis infection

Onychoptosis is the periodic shedding and falling of one or more nails, in whole or part. It can be seen after fever, trauma, adverse reaction to medications, and in systemic illnesses including syphilis (syphilitic onychia). We report a case of 38-year-old man presented with subacute bilateral retr...

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Autores principales: Al-Awwad, Ahmad A, Abdelmaksoud, Omar, Albirini, Abdulmawla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7414600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832429
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.ajm_215_19
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description Onychoptosis is the periodic shedding and falling of one or more nails, in whole or part. It can be seen after fever, trauma, adverse reaction to medications, and in systemic illnesses including syphilis (syphilitic onychia). We report a case of 38-year-old man presented with subacute bilateral retrobulbar optic neuritis. Physical examination revealed diffuse onychoptosis which lead into the diagnosis of neurosyphilis. Symptoms significantly improved with appropriate treatment with intravenous penicillin G for 14 days.
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spelling pubmed-74146002020-08-20 Onychoptosis: A forgotten sign in syphilis infection Al-Awwad, Ahmad A Abdelmaksoud, Omar Albirini, Abdulmawla Avicenna J Med Case Report Onychoptosis is the periodic shedding and falling of one or more nails, in whole or part. It can be seen after fever, trauma, adverse reaction to medications, and in systemic illnesses including syphilis (syphilitic onychia). We report a case of 38-year-old man presented with subacute bilateral retrobulbar optic neuritis. Physical examination revealed diffuse onychoptosis which lead into the diagnosis of neurosyphilis. Symptoms significantly improved with appropriate treatment with intravenous penicillin G for 14 days. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7414600/ /pubmed/32832429 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.ajm_215_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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