1. Diffuse nail dyschromia in black patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Author
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Vaughn RY, Bailey JP Jr, Field RS, Loebl DH, Mealing HG Jr, Jerath RS, and Dorlon RE
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Child, Female, Humans, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ethnology, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic physiopathology, Male, Middle Aged, Nail Diseases ethnology, Nail Diseases pathology, Pigmentation, Pigmentation Disorders ethnology, Pigmentation Disorders pathology, Time Factors, Black People, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic complications, Nail Diseases complications, Pigmentation Disorders complications
- Abstract
Diffuse dark blue-black chromonychia was observed in 17 of 33 (52%) black patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but not in 47 non-SLE black patients. About half of these patients had active disease. A comparison was made between patients with SLE with chromonychia and those without but no distinctive clinical or laboratory variable differentiated the 2 groups. This pattern of nail hyperpigmentation has not previously been associated with SLE.
- Published
- 1990