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A Caucasian female patient, age 52 years, presented on her left thumb nail a longitudinal melanonychia, persisting since more than 3 years without involvement of the nail edges (negative Hutchinson sign) and without any symptoms of internal and genetic diseases or dermatoses of the nail bed.
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Fritz, K., Alghamdi, M., Salavastru, C. (2020). Treatment of a Longitudinal Melanonychia in One Session with a 532 nm Picosecond Laser. 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_3
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