Starace MV, Alessandrini A, Tosti A, Piraccini BM. Nails Involvement in Winiwarter-Buerger Disease.
Skin Appendage Disord 2022;
8:142-145. [PMID:
35415181 PMCID:
PMC8928203 DOI:
10.1159/000518982]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 08/22/2024] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Buerger disease, or thromboangiitis obliterans, is an inflammatory and occlusive process involving small and medium size arteries and veins, which generally affects the lower limbs of young adult male with the habit of smoking.
CASE PRESENTATION
This paper reports 2 patients who developed nail lesions as the first sign of Buerger disease.
CONCLUSION
Signs and symptoms of Buerger's disease are secondary to the inflammatory process and arterial occlusion which results in severe ischemia. Involvement of nails is not common, but we found 2 different clinical features which have not been previously reported in the literature: chronic paronychia, and proximal leukonychia or onycholysis and nail bed erosion.
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