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A Middle-Aged Woman with the 3-Year History of Nail Dyschromy

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A 55-year-old woman was admitted to the Department of Dermatology because of pigmented lesion within the nail plate of the fourth digit of the left hand. It was her first visit to a dermatology clinic, although the longitudinal melanonychia has persisted and grown slowly for about 3 years. She neither suffer from any chronic diseases nor report any additional subjective symptoms.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszów, Poland

    Aleksandra Opalińska & Adam Reich

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  1. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Roma, Roma, Italy

    Torello Lotti

  2. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Roma, Roma, Italy

    Michael Tirant

  3. Dermatologie und Allergologie, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

    Uwe Wollina

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Opalińska, A., Reich, A. (2020). A Middle-Aged Woman with the 3-Year History of Nail Dyschromy. 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_16

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