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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
Published on: April 18, 2011
Traumatic nail split
Salih Hamad Mohamad Aljabre1, Mohamad Hejazi, Ali Alamir
1King Fahd Hospital of the University, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. saljabre@yahoo.com
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
|December 1, 2006
Abstract:
In nail split, the nail plate is divided into two parts. Trauma involving the nail matrix, the generator of the nail plate, can result in nail plate splitting which may take some months to become apparent. Photographic documentation of this condition in the literature had hitherto been lacking.
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