China Journal of Leprosy and Skin Diseases ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 386-387.doi: 10.12144/zgmfskin202206386

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Nail loss secondary to periungual fibroma: a case report

LYU Chen, ZHANG Fan, LIU Yongxia, SUN Yonghu   

  1. Shandong Provincial Hospital for Skin Diseases & Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, Shandong First Medical University, Jinan 250022, China
  • Online:2022-06-15 Published:2022-04-14
  • Contact: SUN Yonghu, E-mail: suohandong@126.com

Abstract: A 57-year-old woman presented with a slowly growing, smoothsurfaced masss on the right third finger, and the nail dehisced gradually. Histopathology of the mass showed that accompanied by fibroblasts and collagen fiber bundles of cross-trending. Histopathology of right third finger double-layered nails showed the nail plate was flat with a large amount of subungual keratinization, epidermal hyperkeratosis, and focal parakeratosis. The diagnosis of nail loss secondary to periungual fibroma was made and the lesions were excised.