title: Yellow nails, lymphedema and chronic cough: yellow nail syndrome in an eight-year-old girl.
abstract: Yellow nail syndrome is a rare disease and reported mainly in adults. A case of yellow nail syndrome involving an eight-year-old girl with associated discoloured yellowish nails on the fingers and toes, lymphedema and chronic cough, and sputum production is reported.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
authors.forename: Ishita
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Siddiq
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003371:Cough; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009262:Nails / Q000473:pathology*; D010996:Pleural Effusion; D056684:Yellow Nail Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy