Alterations in Nail Pigment with Cancer Chmotherapy

Overview

Journal Arch Intern Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1976 Oct 1

PMID 987759

Citations 5

Authors

D W Nixon

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Abstract

Three patients developed different nail color alterations after they had received chemotherapy for cancer. Many anticancer drug combinations are associated with similar findings. Transverse pigmented bands are most common, and these changes should not be confused with those attributable to systemic disease.

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