Nutrition and nail disease

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 420-425

  Cashman, Michael W ^a   Sloan, Steven Brett ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN; CALCIUM; COPPER; GELATIN; IRON; KERATIN; MAGNESIUM; PYRIDOXINE; SODIUM; SULFUR; VITAMIN D; ZINC; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; BRITTLE NAIL SYNDROME; CHROMONYCHIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HAPALONYCHIA; HUMAN; KERATINIZATION; LEUKONYCHIA; MALNUTRITION; NAIL BED; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL GROWTH; NAIL PLATE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; ONYCHOLYSIS; ONYCHOMADESIS; ONYCHORRHEXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN APPENDAGE; SPOON NAIL; TISSUE GROWTH; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPLICATION; NAIL; NAIL DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOTIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; KERATINS; MALNUTRITION; MINERALS; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS; SULFUR;

EID: 77954005062     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.03.037     Document Type: Article

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