title: Split nails.
abstract: Photographic documentation of successful surgical correction of two major vertical-type and one horizontal-type split nail is presented. The developmental mechanism of the horizontal-type split nail is discussed. Treatment of the vertical-type split nail with bipedicled subperiosteal nailbed-matrix flaps is described in detail.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009264:Nails, Malformed / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications