Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria

Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy (TND) also referred to as Trachyonychia is a disorder of the nails. It can affect all the nails hence the name. Trachyonychia is characterized by nail roughness, longitudinal ridging, fragility and hyper-pigmentation. It can occur in all ages and respond poorly to treatment. Wi...

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Autores principales: Oyeleke, Bello Surajudeen, Shekwonyadu, Kure Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7666700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235657
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.380.20936
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description Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy (TND) also referred to as Trachyonychia is a disorder of the nails. It can affect all the nails hence the name. Trachyonychia is characterized by nail roughness, longitudinal ridging, fragility and hyper-pigmentation. It can occur in all ages and respond poorly to treatment. With this background, we report the case of a five year old girl with this disorder.
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spelling pubmed-76667002020-11-23 Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria Oyeleke, Bello Surajudeen Shekwonyadu, Kure Ibrahim Pan Afr Med J Case Report Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy (TND) also referred to as Trachyonychia is a disorder of the nails. It can affect all the nails hence the name. Trachyonychia is characterized by nail roughness, longitudinal ridging, fragility and hyper-pigmentation. It can occur in all ages and respond poorly to treatment. With this background, we report the case of a five year old girl with this disorder. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7666700/ /pubmed/33235657 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.380.20936 Text en Copyright: Bello Surajudeen Oyeleke et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title_full Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title_fullStr Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title_short Twenty-Nail-Dystrophy / Trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the Paediatric Out-patient Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Lafia North-Central Nigeria
title_sort twenty-nail-dystrophy / trachyonychia: a case report in a five year old girl seen at the paediatric out-patient department of a tertiary hospital in lafia north-central nigeria
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7666700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235657
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.380.20936
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