ALLMedicine™ Nail Disorders Center

Feb 5th, 2022 - Nail disorders in general are difficult to treat and often frustrating, and this is also the case with nail psoriasis, especially when it is limited to the nails, and not affecting joints. The quality of life of patients with nail psoriasis is neg...

Feb 1st, 2022 - Nail melanoma (NM) is an important differential diagnosis in patients with longitudinal melanonychia. However, diagnosis is often challenging as it is difficult to differentiate from other pigmented nail disorders. The main challenge for diagnosis...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - This study aimed to assess the possible role of dermoscopy in the diagnosis of different nail disorders compared with the clinical and histopathological diagnosis. This study included 104 patients with nail disorders of both sex and any age. All t...

Nov 18th, 2021 - The nail is a specialized keratinous skin appendage that is often overlooked, even though nail disorders comprise approximately 10% of all dermatologic conditions. We provide an overview on the basic anatomy of the nail and function of each struct...

Oct 27th, 2021 - Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-4/6 inhibitors have been associated with dermatologic reactions, especially alopecia, in pivotal trials. We aimed to comprehensively describe skin toxicities with CDK4/6 inhibitors reported in the real world through t...

Sep 17th, 2019 - Nails are characteristically affected in skin diseases such as psoriasis (speckling, psoriatic oil spot, crumbling nails, pachyonychia) ,lichen( anonychia, dystrophy) ,alopecia areata (speckling, trachyonychia, longitudinal grooves, leukonychia), ...

Feb 9th, 2017 - Onychomycosis is common and accounts for about half of all nail disorders. Usually the cause is due to dermatophytes, either Trichophyton rubrum (71%) or Trichophyton mentagrophytes (20%) but may also be due to yeast infection, usually Candida alb...

Sep 10th, 2021 - Talquetamab, an off-the-shelf T-cell redirecting, GP3C5D-targeting agent, has continued to show promising clinical activity in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, especially when given at the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of 405 ...

Aug 11th, 2021 - To the Editor: Nail psoriasis is highly prevalent in patients with cutaneous psoriasis and also may present as an isolated finding. There is a strong association between nail psoriasis and development of psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Dec 20th, 2020 - The off-the-shelf DuoBody® IgG4 PAA binding antibody talquetamab has elicited a high response rate with a tolerable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to early data from a phase 1 tri...

Apr 3rd, 2019 - Patients frequently present to dermatologists with nail disorders as their chief concern. Alternatively, nail conditions may be encountered by the examining physician as an incidental finding that may be a clue to underlying systemic disease.

Nov 26th, 2018 - Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the nail unit due to dermatophytes, yeasts, and nondermatophyte molds (NDMs). It accounts for approximately 50% of all nail disorders seen in clinical practice and is estimated to affect 10% to 12% of the US.