The half-and-half nail: A new sign of Crohn's disease? Report of four cases

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1071-1073

  Zágoni, Tamás ^a   Sipos, Ferenc ^a   Tarján, Zsolt ^a   Péter, Zoltán ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Half nail; Pseudoleuconychia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; IRON; ZINC;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NAIL COLOR; NAIL COLOR DEFECT; NAIL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSEUDOLEUCONYCHIA; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NAILS, MALFORMED;

EID: 33745948573     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-006-0525-2     Document Type: Article

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