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The 81-year-old male patient presented with a partial destruction of the nail plate of his fourth right digit. The lesion developed over 4 months. He reported no pain and bleeding. Hutchinson’s sign was negative. The distal nail bed presented a hyperkeratotic firm nodule. There was no axillary lymphadenopathy.
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Wollina, U. (2020). A Man with a Painless Isolated Fingernail Dystrophy. In: Lotti, T., Tirant, M., Wollina, U. (eds) Clinical Cases in Melanoma. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50820-3_41
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