paronychia
Sign in to saveAlso known as Infected nailfold, Onychia and paronychia of finger, Onychia and paronychia of toe, Paronychia (disorder), fungal nail infection, paronychia inflammation
Paronychia is an inflammation of the skin around the nail, often due to bacteria or fungi.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Paronychia
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Infection of skin around the nail
- Medical condition.image
- Acute paronychia with pus-filled abscess on finger, photographed by Glen Humble - 3 September 2011.jpg
- Medical condition.field
- Dermatology, emergency medicine
- Medical condition.types
- Acute and chronic
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
1,948 papers- Acute and Chronic Paronychia.American family physician · 2017
- [Paronychia].Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983) · 2014
- Toenail paronychia.Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons · 2016
- Paronychia.Clinics in podiatric medicine and surgery · 1995
- Review of chemotherapy-associated paronychia.International journal of dermatology · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Diagnosis
- Types
- Acute
- Chronic
- Differential
- Treatment
- Antibiotics
- Epidemiology
- References
- External links
Paronychia is an inflammation of the skin around the nail, often due to bacteria or fungi.
Its sudden (acute) occurrence is usually due to the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. Gradual (chronic) occurrences are typically caused by fungi, commonly Candida albicans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “paronychia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.