The aim of this article was to report a case of toe nails disorder associated with metformin use in an elderly patient with type 2 diabetes. Two years ago, after receiving metformin 0.5 g three times daily for 6 months, a 60-year-old Chinese man found his ten toe nails gradually thickened and yellowed (especially two thumbs). The symptoms improved and recovered after metformin discontinuance. H...

Onychocryptosis is a very common disorder. It carries a high morbidity due to the associated pain and inflammation that interfere with normal daily activities. Its treatment can be conservative, which often does not achieve the desired result, or surgical, which is more effective as it is designed to eliminate the part of nail matrix that produces the ingrowing nail plate. One of the surgical t...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between 2014 and 2016, thenar fascial flaps and nail bed grafts were used in five patients. All the patients had full-thickness nail bed defects due to machines or door jamming incidents, and the sizes of the defects were more than half of the whole nail bed. We designed the flaps as general thenar flaps, performed suprafascial dissection, and elevated the dermal flaps pr...

Onychomycosis constitutes the most common fungal infection of the nail (skin beneath the nail bed) that affects the finger as well as toe nails. It is an infection that is initiated by yeasts, dermatophytes, and nondermatophyte molds. Nail lacquers are topical solutions intended only for use on fingernails as well as toenails and have been found to be useful in the treatment of onychomycosis. T...

Background:   To introduce our experience of using the free neurovascular flap from great and second toe. Methods:   Thirteen patients (fifteen fingers) sought surgical treatment for soft tissue defects of the hand at our medical institutin between March 2006 and September 2009. In two patients, fibular side skin-nail flaps of great toe were applied to cover the dorsal defect of distal thumb. I...

Received June 8, 2012, Revised July 9, 2012, Accepted for publication July 15, 2012 Corresponding author: Weon Ju Lee, Department of Dermatology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, 130 Dongdeok-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-721, Korea. Tel: 82-53-420-5838, Fax: 82-53-426-0770, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Att...

There are currently many surgical options for treating the “ingrowing toenail” (for example, wedge resection, which is demonstrated in this month’s Video Series); however, they tend to have high rates of recurrence, poor cosmetic results, and low rates of patient satisfaction.1 According to a 2005 Cochrane Review, rates of regrowth after the long-standing treatment (phenolization) were 34% for ...

background: onychomycosis results from invasion of the nail plate by dermatophytes, yeasts or mould species of fungi. the objective was to determine the etiological agents of onychomycosis. methods: a total of 549 patients clinically suspected of onychomycosis were examined for causative fungal agents. both di­rect microscopy and the cultures of the nail material were performed to identify the ...

Abstract A robust segmentation method that can be used to perform measurements on toenails is presented. The proposed as the first step in a clinical trial objectively quantify incidence of particular pathology. For such an assessment, it necessary distinguish nail, which locally appears similar skin. Many algorithms have been used, each leverages different aspects toenail appearance. We Hough ...

Relevance: Participants were recruited from an outpatient family medicine clinic at an air force base including men and women older than 18 years of age with clinical onychomycosis on at least 1 great toenail. People with allergy to Vicks VapoRub or its ingredients, use of any oral antidermatophyte medication, any deformity of the affected nail, or any reason preventing adequate photographic as...