Nail Diseases

  1. Nail signs:
    • Beau’s lines, nail shedding, pitting, longitudinal ridging, discolouration
  2. Nail infections:
    • Acute paronychia, viral warts, nail fungal infection
  3. Environmental nail disorders:
    • Brittle nails, chronic paronychia
  4. Traumatic nail abnormalities:
    • Ingrown toe nail, pincer nail, onychotillomania, onychogryphosis
  5. Nail disorders in skin diseases:
    • Psoriasis, lichen planus, twenty-nail dystrophy, alopecia areata, eczema
  6. Nail changes in systemic diseases
  7. Drug-induced nail abnormalities
  8. Hereditary and congenital nail disorders
  9. Nail tumours:
    • Benign nail tumours:  warts, fibroma, pyogenic granuloma, myxoid cyst, glomus tumour, melanocytic naevus, onychomatricoma
    • Malignant nail tumour:  squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma