Subungual melanoma is a serious type of skin cancer that occurs in the skin under your nails. Subungual melanomas are rare, seen in only 0.07% to 3.5% of the people in the world who have melanoma. But ...

A subungual hematoma occurs when an injury breaks open blood vessels under the nail, causing blood to collect and become trapped in one spot. It can affect both fingernails and toenails. If a ...

Melanoma is skin cancer arising from skin melanocytes (melanin pigment-producing cells). Subungual (under the nail) melanoma is a rare skin cancer constituting 0.7% to 3.5% of all malignant melanomas.

Subungual hematoma is the medical term for bleeding and bruising on the fingernail or toenail. The condition is also referred to as runner’s toe, tennis toe, or a blood blister under the nail. Read on ...

ABCDEFs of detecting subungual melanoma: The most salient features of subungual melanoma (Figure 5) can be summarized with the following: A= Age (peak incidence is in ...

A 77-year-old white woman presented to our department of dermatology with a slowly enlarging, ulcerated nodule of the nail bed of the right hallux (Figure 1). The patient reported a two-year history ...