Onychogryphosis

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Onychogryposis
Other namesOnychogryposis or Ram's horn nails[1]
SpecialtyDermatology Edit this on Wikidata

Onychogryphosis is a hypertrophy that may produce nails resembling claws or a ram's horn.

Causes

Onychogryphosis demonstrating the characteristic ram's horn appearance
cut the nails for extended periods of time.[2]: 783–4 [3] This condition is most commonly seen in the elderly.[4]

Treatment

Some recommend

carbon dioxide laser, if the blood supply is adequate.[2]: 783–4 [5]
: 659 

Epidemiology

Severe congenital onychogryphosis affecting all twenty

dominant allele for a certain gene.[6][7]

Congenital onychogryphosis of the

manicurists
who routinely file the clawed toenail flat.

See also

  • List of cutaneous conditions

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1
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  2. ^
    ISBN 0-7216-2921-0
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  3. Livorno, Italy, reported in Medical Journal of Australia
    , MJA 2011; 195 (4): 202, 15 August 2011, accessed 1 September 2011
  4. ISBN 978-0-7020-6830-0
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  5. ISBN 0-07-138076-0
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  6. PMID 19982897
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  7. PMID 13199328
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External links

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