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Nailing the Diagnosis!

Physical examination plays a crucial role in patient evaluation by confirming the hypotheses during history taking, suggesting new clues, and directing investigations. We describe how the recognition...

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Terry’s Nails: A Window to Systemic Diseases

Despite the enormous involvement of imaging tools in medicine, a focused physical examination still plays a pivotal role in all medical fields. During and after taking history, a detailed inspection...

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Silver-Containing Wound Cream Leading to Argyria—Always Ask About Alternative...

Azure lunula, blue discoloration of nails. Currently, patients are increasingly gaining access to medications and nutritional supplements via the Internet from companies that are not subject to any...

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Transverse Lines of the Nails

Transverse lines of the fingernails. (A) Beau’s lines (arrows) of the thumbnail. (B) Mees’ lines (arrowheads) of the thumbnail. Four distinct, transverse, depressed lines (Figure, A) developed on the...

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Silver-Containing Wound Cream Leading to Argyria—Always Ask About Alternative...

Currently, patients are increasingly gaining access to medications and nutritional supplements via the Internet from companies that are not subject to any regulations that protect consumers, such as US...

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Transverse Lines of the Nails

Four distinct, transverse, depressed lines (Figure, A) developed on the fingernails of a 73-year-old man with castration-resistant prostate cancer after 4 cycles of docetaxel-based chemotherapy; the...

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Assessment of Digital Clubbing

  Digital clubbing, a resultant finding from the proliferation of connective tissue in the terminal portion of fingers or toes, has long been recognized as a sign for a number of underlying infectious,...

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