Adeniran A, Townsend P L, Peachey R D
Department of Plastic Surgery, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK.
J Hand Surg Br. 1993 Oct;18(5):667-9. doi: 10.1016/0266-7681(93)90031-a.
A 25-year-old lady presented with painful periungual tumours which were associated with lytic changes of underlying terminal phalanges. She had been previously treated as a case of chronic paronychia but the problem recurred. She was subsequently diagnosed as a case of Incontinentia pigmenti which is a rare genodermatosis with mixed ectodermal and mesodermal polydysplasias, onchychodystrophy being a very rare manifestation. She was treated by excision of painful finger lesions, but there is no specific treatment for the underlying condition.
