Site: Nails
Diagnosis: Onychomatricoma
Sex: M
Age: 60
Type: Dermlite Polarised
Submitted By: Ian McColl
Description: Looped vessels proximally
History:
This lesion on one thumb nail had slowly developed over 1 year. It was asymptomatic. The yellow and white keratin lines with the proximal looped vessels and distal haemorrhages are characteristic of an early onychomatricoma. There was not yet a overcurvature of the nail or prominant distal nail edge tubules.
This benign nail matrix tumour will require partial matrix excision.
Look at this article in the DOJ for a more florid case with histology.