Retronychia usually affects young female (between 20 and 30 years old). It starts with the disruption of the longitudinal growth of the nail, because of a microtraumatic insult. Others diagnostic criteria: proximal nail plate rose upward proximal nailfold, pachyonychia and dyschromia, paronychia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report four cases of superficial angiomyxomas, including two cutaneous tumors and two subungueal tumors. Histological analysis revealed a recently described tumor, so called superficial angiomyxoma. This is a myxoid paucicellular tumor lobulated and poorly circumbscribed, containing numerous small blood vessels surrounded by a mixed inflammatory cell infiltrate with notable neutrophils.
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