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Transverse Nail Ridges: Horizontal lines which are a marker of a past episode of severe illness
Photo
Ridges: Horizontal lines ... severe illness Photo ... BeausLines #Transverse #FingerNails ... #Ridges #UCSDH ... #PhysicalExam
Muehrcke's Lines (Leukonychia striata)
Narrow while transverse lines (Not depressed, compared to Beau's lines). Usually 2 or
Muehrcke's Lines ... while transverse lines ... Leukonychia #striata #Fingernails ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Photo
Digital clubbing found in a 64 year old woman seen for pathological patellar fracture after a
found in a 64 year ... clubbing #nails #fingernails ... #clinical #photo ... #pulmonary #physicalexam
Transverse lines of the fingernails. (A) Beau’s lines (arrows) of the thumbnail. (B) Mees’ lines (arrowheads)
Transverse lines ... of the fingernails ... BeausLines #Transverse #FingerNails ... Ridges #Clinical #PhysicalExam ... #Photo
Mees' Lines
Transverse while lines (usually one per nail, no depressions) that often can will disappear if
Mees' Lines Transverse ... while lines (usually ... #Mees #Lines #Fingernails ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Photo
Quitter's Nail
Nicotine stained distally, but not proximally with clear line of demarcation. May also appear when
proximally with clear line ... switches to "lower tar ... #Quitters #Fingernails ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Photo
Beau's Lines

Transverse depressed ridges seen in severe infection, MI, hypotension/shock, hypocalcemia, post-surgical, malnutrition and with certain
Beau's Lines ... #Beaus #Lines #Fingernails ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Photo
Nail Pathologies - Findings in or Near Nails

Paronychia 

A superficial infection of the proximal and lateral
Findings in or Near ... As with Mees' lines ... distance from the line ... #FingerNails #Nail ... Clinical #Signs #PhysicalExam
Corrigan’s Pulse and Quincke’s Pulse- ...While the patient was sitting upright, the right carotid artery was
in the previous year ... #clinical #photo ... #NEJM #corrigans ... pulse #quinckes #physicalexam