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Nail manifestations in pemphigus vulgaris
Juliana Burihan Cahali1, Everton Yuji Soyama Kakuda, Cláudia Giuli Santi
1Department of Dermatology, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|November 19, 2002
Abstract:
Nail involvement in pemphigus vulgaris is rare. We describe 5 patients with pemphigus vulgaris presenting nail involvement. In this disease, nail manifestations present, by order of frequency, as chronic paronychia, onychomadesis, onycholysis, Beau's lines and trachyonychia. All our 5 cases presented with paronychia, and 1 of them also had Beau's lines. Treatment with prednisone and/or cyclophosphamide controlled mucocutaneous and nail manifestations in all cases.