Diseases mimicking onychomycosis

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-177

  Allevato, Miguel Angel José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COLLAGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GADOLINIUM; INDINAVIR; RETINOID DERIVATIVE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ALOPECIA AREATA; AMYLOIDOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BOWEN DISEASE; BULLOUS DERMATITIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DARIER DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EXOSTOSIS; FIBROMA; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENODERMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INCIDENCE; KERATOACANTHOMA; KERATOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHEN STRIATUS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MELANOMA; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ONYCHOLYSIS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PARONYCHIA; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PITYRIASIS RUBRA PILARIS; PORPHYRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CYST; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TOXICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROID DISEASE; VERRUCA VULGARIS; X RAY; YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME;

ALOPECIA; DARIER DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PARONYCHIA; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES, PAPULOSQUAMOUS; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS; WARTS;

EID: 77950203464     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2009.12.001     Document Type: Note

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