Nail Changes With Chemotherapeutic Agents and Targeted Therapies

Patients on Cancer chemotherapeutic agents often develop nail changes most of which are only cosmetic concern and disappear on drug withdrawal. But some nail changes can be painful and disabling thereby affecting quality of life substantially. Different components of the nail unit include the nail m...

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Autores principales: Mittal, Shankila, Khunger, Niti, Kataria, Satya Pal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8809183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35198463
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_801_20
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description Patients on Cancer chemotherapeutic agents often develop nail changes most of which are only cosmetic concern and disappear on drug withdrawal. But some nail changes can be painful and disabling thereby affecting quality of life substantially. Different components of the nail unit include the nail matrix, nail bed, nail plate, the hyponychium, lunula, the proximal and lateral nail folds. In this article we review the nail changes induced by chemotherapeutics and targeted anticancer drugs, preventive measures and treatment options available.
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spelling pubmed-88091832022-02-22 Nail Changes With Chemotherapeutic Agents and Targeted Therapies Mittal, Shankila Khunger, Niti Kataria, Satya Pal Indian Dermatol Online J Review Article Patients on Cancer chemotherapeutic agents often develop nail changes most of which are only cosmetic concern and disappear on drug withdrawal. But some nail changes can be painful and disabling thereby affecting quality of life substantially. Different components of the nail unit include the nail matrix, nail bed, nail plate, the hyponychium, lunula, the proximal and lateral nail folds. In this article we review the nail changes induced by chemotherapeutics and targeted anticancer drugs, preventive measures and treatment options available. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8809183/ /pubmed/35198463 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_801_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Dermatology Online Journal https://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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