Open AccessAn Update on the Disappearing Nail Bed
Author(s) -
Ralph Daniel,
Meir Babaev,
Avner Shemer
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 - 10.1159/000455013
Subject(s) - onycholysis , nail (fastener) , dermatology , nail plate , medicine , nail disease , foot (prosody) , surgery , paronychia , materials science , art , metallurgy , literature
The nail bed may epithelialize and develop dermatoglyphics after long-standing onycholysis. We have called this phenomenon the disappearing nail bed (DNB). DNB may present as a shortened or narrow nail bed.