Diffuse nail dyschromia in black patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Diffuse dark blue-black chromonychia was observed in 17 of 33 (52%) black patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but not in 47 non-SLE black patients. About half of these patients had active disease. A comparison was made between patients with SLE with chromonychia and those without but no distinctive clinical or laboratory variable differentiated the 2 groups. This pattern of nail hyperpigmentation has not previously been associated with SLE.
Vaughn
R Y
RY
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta 30912-3146.
Bailey
J P
JP
Field
R S
RS
Loebl
D H
DH
Mealing
H G
HG
Jerath
R S
RS
Dorlon
R E
RE
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044383:Black People; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009260:Nail Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000473:pathology; D010858:Pigmentation; D010859:Pigmentation Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors