Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease

We highlight the importance of a thorough nail examination in every clinical encounter, especially in uremic patients. Absent lunula should prompt the clinician to rule out underlying kidney disease even in the absence of signs of uremia.

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Autores principales: Daadaa, Najla, Souissi, Asmahane, Ben Kaab, Badreddine, Zouaghi, Mohamed Karim, Mokni, Mourad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3471
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author Daadaa, Najla
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spelling pubmed-78130762021-01-22 Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease Daadaa, Najla Souissi, Asmahane Ben Kaab, Badreddine Zouaghi, Mohamed Karim Mokni, Mourad Clin Case Rep Clinical Images We highlight the importance of a thorough nail examination in every clinical encounter, especially in uremic patients. Absent lunula should prompt the clinician to rule out underlying kidney disease even in the absence of signs of uremia. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7813076/ /pubmed/33489220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3471 Text en © 2020 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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Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title_full Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title_fullStr Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title_full_unstemmed Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title_short Absent lunula: An overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
title_sort absent lunula: an overlooked finding in chronic kidney disease
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3471
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