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Nail that lift up at edges - are these what is meant by spoon shaped. I am confused with the difference between convex and concave nails. Is this when you are looking down on them.

I have a patient where the white tips of the fingernails are extending down the sides whereas mine just go straight across. Her nails to look on them from the side are very flat. I am sure that this is an indication of a particular miasm but my Bannerjea notes aren't very clear.

Regards Rochelle.
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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Rochelle,

Years ago when I studied with Michael Bouko-Levy he had an entire segment on
nails. The jist of the course was that whenever you have nails that are
irregular (such as the ones you describe) the Syphilitic miasm is involved.

Sara

"rochelle" wrote:
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Thanks Sarah - that's what I thought it was but just wanted to check. My notes said concave.spoon shaped,, paper thin, bending and tearing for syphilitic.
Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

HI Rochelle,
some nail pictures-- (the "spoon shaped" according to this resource is
"koilonychia")


Other info-but short on images:


Best
A

Brilliant -Thanks.

I actually think it is Onycholysis looking at the second resource.

Regards
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

Oh pooh, how come I get "document not found" when I try to look at the first
link???
Shannon

on 10/20/04 7:04 AM, rochelle at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

Because you didn't paste the whole like but clicked on the URL in the post like I did originally!!!
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

Hi Andy

This link does not seem to work, and the search on the site yields no
results, any other ideas

Thank you

Karen

On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 05:28 AM, Karen Evans wrote:

More to try (hope these work):
Abnormalities of fingernails discussion:
http://health.yahoo.com/health/ency/ada ... 7/overview
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