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Scabies, caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite burrowing into the skin, is a highly contagious disease characterized by intense nocturnal itching. Its global impact is considerable, affecting more than 200 million individuals annually and posing significant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Transmission occurs primarily through direct skin‐to‐skin contact, contributing to its widespread prevalence and emergence as a substantial public health concern affecting large populations. This review presents consensus‐based clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing and managing scabies, developed through the fuzzy Delphi method by dermatology, parasitology, pediatrics, pharmacology, and public health experts. The presence of burrows containing adult female mites, their eggs, and excreta is the diagnostic hallmark of scabies. Definitive diagnosis typically involves direct microscopic examination of skin scrapings obtained from these burrows, although dermoscopy has become a diagnostic tool in clinical practice. Treatment modalities encompass topical agents, such as permethrin, balsam of Peru, precipitated sulfur, and benzyl benzoate. In cases where topical therapy proves inadequate or in instances of crusted scabies, oral ivermectin is recommended as a systemic treatment option. This comprehensive approach addresses the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges associated with scabies, optimizing patient care, and management outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background and Objectives: The dermoscopic features of glomus tumors have only been described in a few case reports. The aim of this research was to define the clinical and dermoscopic features of subungual glomus tumors. Methods: Thirty‐two patients with subungual glomus tumors were evaluated retrospectively. Results: On the photographs, longitudinal erythronychia, longitudinal leukonychia, punctate leukonychia, splinter hemorrhage, isolated capillaries, distal notching, distal subungual hyperkeratosis, onycholysis, and onychoschizia were found. There was no statistical difference between the rates of detection of these findings by evaluation from clinical photographs alone and from both clinical and dermoscopic photographs. While ramified vessels with bluish spots could be detected in only five of 26 cases with bluish spots in their clinical photographs, these ramified vessels were seen in 14 cases in bluish spots in dermoscopic photographs (P = 0.004). Compared to clinical examination, dermoscopy was able to detect blue spots in three more cases. Lesion duration was higher in the cases with ramified vessels (P = 0.018). Conclusions: Dermoscopy seems to contribute to the clinical examination in displaying only ramified vessels located in bluish spots and in determining the localization of the subungual tumors. The presence of ramified vessel in the bluish spots is strongly related to lesion duration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses a case study on the treatment of onychogryphosis, a nail deformity characterized by thickened and curved nails. The exact cause of onychogryphosis is not well understood, but it can be triggered by trauma, fungal infections, and other factors. Currently, there is no curative treatment for onychogryphosis, and the recurrence rate is high. However, this case study reports the successful use of intramatrix dexpanthenol injection in the treatment of onychogryphosis, resulting in significant clinical improvement without any observed side effects. Further research is needed to understand the exact pathogenesis of onychogryphosis and confirm the effectiveness of this treatment. [Extracted from the article]

The nail unit is a complex structure consisting of different neighboring anatomical and histological structures such as nail plate, proximal and lateral nail folds, eponchymium, hyponchymium, nail matrix, nail bed and distal phalanx. Due to this feature of the nail unit, the tumors seen here may represent very different clinical features compared to tumors seen in other skin areas. Since the presence of the nail plate prevents the direct viewing of the subungual tumors, it often causes limitations in the evaluation of the lesions with the naked eye or dermoscopic examination. Due to similar reasons, various differences and difficulties may be encountered in the clinical differential diagnosis, biopsy sampling, histopathological features and treatments of tumors seen here, and diagnosis and treatment delays may occur.This review aims to summarize the diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors of the nail unit, a specialized anatomical structure, in the light of current information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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