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A 57-year-old Caucasian woman was examined due to a 3-year history of a pigmented, longitudinal streak involving the nail plate of her left index finger (Fig. 1.1), with no history of trauma to the digit. Clinical examination did not reveal any sign of nail destruction, while dermoscopic examination demonstrated unevenly pigmented, longitudinal lines along the entire nail plate, with pigmentation extending to the distal nail fold (Fig. 1.2).
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Aždajić, M.D., Šitum, M., Vučić, M., Buljan, M. (2020). Odd Looking Nail. 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_1
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