Onychomatricoma: A Rare Nail Tumor with an Unusual Clinical Presentation | Zendy

Preetha Kamath | Zendy; Timothy Wu | Zendy; Gabriel Villada | Zendy; Martin Zaiac | Zendy; George W. Elgart | Zendy; Antonellá Tosti | Zendy

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Onychomatricoma: A Rare Nail Tumor with an Unusual Clinical Presentation

Author(s) -

Preetha Kamath,

Timothy Wu,

Gabriel Villada,

Martin Zaiac,

George W. Elgart,

Antonellá Tosti

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

skin appendage disorders

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2296-9195

pISSN - 2296-9160

DOI - 10.1159/000484577

Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , nail (fastener) , nail matrix , medicine , dermatology , dome (geology) , case presentation , rare disease , pathology , radiology , surgery , nail plate , biology , disease , paleontology , psoriasis , materials science , metallurgy

First described in 1992, onychomatricoma is a rare, benign, fibroepithelial tumor of the nail matrix with few reported cases in the literature. The tumor predominately affects the fingers of Caucasian women during the 5th decade of life and is typically slow growing and painless. The authors present a unique clinical presentation of a giant onychomatricoma in a darker-skinned 60-year-old South Asian individual who presented with a large dome-shaped nail that was smooth, shiny, and green.

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