Dermatology
Research Reports from L.M. Patel and Co-Authors Provide New Insights into Dermatology
Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 26th, 2011
2011 SEP 26 -- According to the authors of recent research from Old Westbury, New York, "Commonly used dermatologic eponyms and characteristic skin signs are enormously helpful in guiding a diagnosis, even though they may not be pathonemonic. They include, on the nails, Aldrich-Mees' lines (syn.: Mees' lines), Beau's lines, Muehrcke's lines, Terry's nails, and half and half nails, often associated, respectively, with arsenic poisoning, acute stress or systemic illness, severe hypertension, liver disease and uremia, and, around the nails, Braverman's sign, associated with collagen-vascular disease."
"Elsewhere, one may see the Asboe-Hansen and Nikolsky's...
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