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Hair fragments as a subungual foreign body in a hairdresser Volume 7, numéro 7, October - November 1997

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  • Page(s) : 517-8
  • Année de parution : 1997

Fragments of cut hair imbedded under the nail plate is an infrequent, occupational skin disease in addition to contact dermatitis and interdigital sinuses or trichogranulomas [1, 2] in professional hairdressers. We have found a few reports of onycholysis in beauticians caused by subungual hair penetration [3, 4] and a single case of subungual trichogranuloma due to the introduction of hairs beneath the nail plate in a hairdresser [...]