Chemotherapy induced transverse leukonychia in children.
Transverse white nail banding can be inherited or caused by various diseases and medications, including cancer chemotherapeutic agents, retinoids, tetracyclines, antimalarials, sulfonamides, pilocarpine, cortisone and zidovudine. Neither a specific drug nor classes of cancer chemotherapeutics were associated more frequently than the other with acquired transverse leukonychia in patients with cancer. Here we report transverse leukonychia in four children with cancer receiving different chemotherapeutic agents.
Yoruk
Asim
A
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, SSK Goztepe Educational Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. mayoruk@superonline.com
Yukselgungor
Handan
H
D000293:Adolescent; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000188:drug therapy; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D009260:Nail Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000188:drug therapy
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents