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KMID : 0376119830100010029
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Medical Journal of the Red Cross Hospital
1983 Volume.10 No. 1 p.29 ~ p.34
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A Clinical Study on Nail Changes
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Abstract
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The author examined nail changes in 215 in-patients with various systemic diseases and 200 normal healthy persons as control group.
The results were summarized as follows:
1) Of the 215 in patients, 168 patients(78.1%) showed one or more nail changes, but in control group, 126 of 200,persons(63%) showed one or more nail changes.
2) The order of frequency of nail changes in in-patients group were onychorrhexis(19.1%). Beau´s line (9.-2%), Melanonychia(7.6%), but in control group were Beau´s line(21.4%), leukonychia(20.0%), and onychorrhexis(12.9%).
3) The order of :frequency. of systemic diseases showing more nail changes were fracture and. Tone diseases (14.:9%), liver cirrhosis (6.47c), diabetes. mellitus(4.879), hypertension (3. 67o), cerebral vascular accident(3.6%), a plastic anemia(3.2%), hepatoma(3.2%), and hepatitis (3.2%).
4) Of the above systemic diseases, the most frequent nail changes in 3 former diseases were as follows: onychorrhexis(37.8%) in fracture and bone diseases, onychorrhexis(18.75%) and melanonychia(18.75%) in liver cirrhosis, and onychorrhexis(257o) in diabetes mellitus.
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