Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (dermatology)

Mycosis of the feet

Mycosis pedis is a skin lesion caused by some dermatophyte and yeast fungi, which has a common localization and similar clinical manifestations.

Mycosis of large folds

Mycosis of large folds - lesions of the skin of the folds and adjacent areas caused by Trichophyton rubrum, Epidermophyton floccosum (seu inguinale), and Trichophyton mentagrophytes.

Skin lesions caused by ultraviolet rays (photodermatosis): causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Ultraviolet radiation (UV) can get on the skin naturally in sunlight and with artificial UV-irradiation with special lamps (medical fotarii and UV lamps of industrial purpose).

Candidiasis of okolonogevyh rollers and nails

Candida onychia and paronychia are the most frequent forms of superficial candidiasis caused by fungi of the genus Candida. This is a conditionally pathogenic, spontaneous dimorphic fungi, which are facultative anaerobes.

Onychomycosis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Onychomycosis is a fungal lesion of the nail plates, widespread among the population of all countries of the world. The causative agents of onychomycosis are fungi-dermatophytes - the bowl of the entire Trichophyton rubrum, less often Trichophyton mentagrophytes (var. Interdigitale) and Epidermophyton floccosum.

Change in nail color: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Changing the color of the nail plate (chromonichia) can result from exogenous staining of the nail and can be associated with a number of endogenous factors affecting the color of the nail plate. Select a color change for white, yellow, green, blue, red (purple), brown (black).

Changes in the thickness of the nail: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

On the hands, the normal thickness of the nail plate averages 0.5 mm, on the feet - 1 mm. Reduction and increase in these indicators should be diagnosed as a thinning or thickening of the nail.

Changes in the surface of the nails: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

To the changes in the surface of the nails include point impressions and furrows. Pointed impressions on the surface of the nail plate are in fact small erosive defects of the nail keratin. Their presence can be a variant of the norm - in a healthy person it is possible to detect up to 5 point impressions on the surface of all twenty nails.

Changes in the shape of the nails: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The most common options for changing the shape of nail plates are coilonichia and bulging nails like "watch glass".

Partial and complete absence of nails: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Under partial absence of the nail plate is understood as onyolysis, i.e. Incomplete separation of the nail from the nail bed. In dermatological practice, onycholysis is the most common symptom of nail plate lesions.

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