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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1980;23(9):766-770. Published online September 15, 1980.

A Case of Congenital Partial Anonychia.

Young Hee Yoo, Moon Ki Cho, Young Sook Hong, Hae Sook Kwon, Nam Ji Cho

¹Department of pediatrics, National Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

The congenital partial anonychia is known to be very rare developmental anomalies of the nail. Recently, we experienced a case of congenital partial anonychiain male newborn infant due to autosomal dominance. In this condition there complete absence of nails on the both thumb, index, middle fingers and toes were affected in a similar way to the fingers. But there were no other associated abnormalities. We present a case with a brief review of literature.

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