title: Subungual exostosis.
abstract: This report is intended to focus attention on the often occurring, but seldom reported, subungual exostosis. Familiarity with its clinical characteristics should enable the physician to make a preoperative diagnosis or at least include it in the differential diagnosis of any subungual growth. Establishing the practice of x-raying all subungual tumors may save the physician's ego from the trauma of a missed diagnosis. More importantly, however, it may save the patient from unnecessary and at times even unnecessarily drastic surgery.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005096:Exostoses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005531:Foot Deformities, Acquired / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009262:Nails; D011859:Radiography; D014034:Toes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology