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Therapy For Skin, Hair and Nail Fungal Infections
Published in Raimo E Suhonen, Rodney P R Dawber, David H Ellis, Fungal Infections of the Skin, Hair and Nails, 2020
Raimo E Suhonen, Rodney P R Dawber, David H Ellis
It is important to treat symptomatic tinea pedis and onychomycosis. Untreated tinea pedis may lead to severe reactive inflammation, with painful Assuring of the feet and toes. Occasionally, generalized ‘autosensitisation’ eruptions occur in response to persistent focal fungal skin disease. Onychomycosis may be asymptomatic and no more than an ‘aesthetic compromise’ in its early stages. However, progression of the disease frequently leads to complications, such as an ingrowing toenail and sometimes the painful nail-plate deformities of onychogryphosis and pincer or trumpet nail that may occur later in life. Studies of onychogryphosis in the elderly have shown that many such patients had untreated onychomycosis at a younger age. The initial capital cost of treating onychomycosis successfully is, therefore, fully justified.
Nail changes in systemic diseases and drug reactions
Published in Eckart Haneke, Histopathology of the NailOnychopathology, 2017
Approximately half of the patients with rheumatic arthritis display nail changes of variable types. Particularly, dilated nail fold capillaries have attracted much attention among rheumatologists. Brittle nails, onychorrhexis, and onycholysis with subungual hyperkeratosis and splinter hemorrhages are frequent.133 Immobility due to joint pain may favor onychogryposis.
Principles of Clinical Diagnosis
Published in Susan Bayliss Mallory, Alanna Bree, Peggy Chern, Illustrated Manual of Pediatric Dermatology, 2005
Susan Bayliss Mallory, Alanna Bree, Peggy Chern
Onychogryphosis Acquired thickening (Figure 19.11)Caused by trauma, aging or unknown etiology
Stephanus Bisius (1724–1790) on mania and melancholy, and the disorder called plica polonica
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2021
Eglė Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, Paul Eling, Stanley Finger
Plica polonica, the term used by Bisius, has also been called plica polonica judaica, trichoma, or lues sarmatica in Latin; kołtki, goźdźiec, or kołtun in Polish; kaltūnas in Lithuanian, la plique polonaise in French; and weichselzopf, judenzopf, or hexenzopf in German. Its signs and symptoms, it was commonly believed, included irreversible plaiting of the hair, accompanied by lice, headaches, mutilating arthritis, scoliosis, and onychogryphosis (a condition in which the nails grow thick and curvy).