(1) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(2) Infectious causes of finger pain include cellulitis, tendinitis, paronychia, felon, and infectious emboli, which generally require antibiotics with or without drainage.
(3) Herpetic whitlow can be distinguished from a paronychia by the lack of a tense pulp space, formation of vesicles, and serous (rather than purulent) drainage.
(4) Although clinical adverse effects were frequent in all groups, severe side effects, namely hair loss and paronychia, occurred frequently only among patients treated with an initial dose of 50 mg of etretin daily.
(5) Twenty food handlers affected by chronic paronychia were submitted to patch tests with the fresh foods that were suspected of being the cause of the dermatitis.
(6) This lead to a complete acute zinc deficiency syndrome with pronounced acrodermatitis enteropathica-like skin changes in the face and the genital region, paronychia, flat blistering on the hands and feet, loss of hair, fingernail ridging (Beau's) and serious physical changes.
(7) An "old" paronychia is a major catastrophe: small fistula, great damage.
(8) Subsequent to an autopsy of a tuberculotic cadaver, a pathology resident presented with a painless paronychia and axillary adenopathy after surgical incision and broad-spectrum antibiotics had failed to improve his condition.
(9) The highest primary healing rates were seen in lesions caused by paronychia (84%) and stress ulcer (76%).
(10) Infections (pemphigus, paronychia, conjunctivitis, umbilical infection) occurred in 12.9% of the infants, of whom 65% got infection after discharge from the nursery.
(11) Because of recurrent paronychia of the right thumb "granulation" tissue was removed from the nail-bed of a ten-year-old girl.
(12) Progressive, extremely painful paronychia of the left third and fourth fingers gradually developed, which persisted despite a variety of treatment protocols, including antibiotics and radiotherapy, ultimately necessitating amputation of the distal portions of the digits.
(13) Infections were present in 7%; over half were paronychias.
(14) A 55-year-old woman presented with suppurative paronychia that became chronic.
(15) Furthermore, when the two recurrent paronychia were treated with both procedures, one healed completely and the other was markedly improved.
(16) Especially, the radiotherapy of the following diseases seems to be favourable: parotitis, mastitis, abscess, furuncle, paronychia and panaritium.
(17) A cross-sectional prevalence study among 686 female workers in a canning factory in the western Cape showed high rates of dermatoses--in particular, chronic paronychia, intertrigo and dermatitis of the hands.
(18) The clinical picture can be protean and mimic verrucae, onychomycosis, paronychia, eczema, pyogenic granuloma, verrucous tuberculosis, subungual exostosis, glomus tumor, dermatitis vegetans, amelanotic malignant melanoma, kerato-acanthoma and of course squamous cell carcinoma.
(19) Our results confirm the view that an immediate hypersensitivity reaction to foods can be responsible for some cases of chronic paronychia in food handlers.
(20) Six patients with nail infections due to Candida albicans not associated with paronychia affecting a total of 20 nails received itraconazole (100 mg daily) for a mean period of 5.9 months.
Whitlow
Definition:
(a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.
(a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients had herpes simplex infection of the fingertips (herpetic whitlow) associated with herpetic keratitis.
(2) The positive beneficial results indicate that aggressive iontophoretic treatment for herpetic whitlow is useful and justified.
(3) Herpetic whitlow can be distinguished from a paronychia by the lack of a tense pulp space, formation of vesicles, and serous (rather than purulent) drainage.
(4) Primary and recurrent herpetic whitlow respond to acyclovir.
(5) Burton, meanwhile, have put head of academy Mike Whitlow in caretaker charge, assisted by senior players Ian Sharps and Lee Bell.
(6) In December 1987, we investigated an increased number of cases of herpetic whitlow in medical intensive care unit nurses who routinely gloved for secretion contact.
(7) Herpetic whitlow, caused by herpes simplex, looks similar to other infections of the digit but pursues a self-limited course, resolving in 3 to 4 weeks; surgical treatment is strongly contraindicated.
(8) Herpes simplex viral infection of the digits, also known as herpetic whitlow, is a rather common hand problem encountered in dental and medical personnel.
(9) Results of the treatment of 100 patients with bony, bony-articular panaritium, thecal whitlow and pandactylitis are described.
(10) Often these "herpetic whitlows" were caused by H. hominis type 1 and occurred in medical personnel.
(11) The least alterations were observed in the serous stage of unguinal panaritium and subcutaneous whitlow in patients from 15 to 25 years of age with the term of the disease 1-2 days.
(12) The crystal structure has been determined by molecular replacement methods, using an energy-minimized alpha 1-P model structure derived from crambin (Whitlow and Teeter: Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 2:831-848, 1985, Journal of the American Chemical Society 108:7163-7172, 1986).
(13) An employee with active herpetic whitlow must wear a glove on the involved hand while working in patient care areas.
(14) Controlled studies of acyclovir therapy for herpetic whitlow have not been done; however, its use by health care providers to treat the symptoms of herpetic whitlow and a review of the disease are discussed in this case report.
(15) We report a case of an adult whose first herpetic whitlow was complicated by secondary periungual abscesses that progressed despite intravenous antimicrobial therapy.
(16) A recent series of 13 recurrent "herpetic whitlows" yielded 11 isolates of H. hominis type 2 and only two of H. hominis type 1.
(17) An unusual case of a gangrenous herpetic whitlow is reported.
(18) However, a difficult therapeutic dilemma occurs when a whitlow is seen with an established bacterial abscess.
(19) Herpetic whitlow is a herpes simplex virus infection of the finger.
(20) The recurrence of herpetic whitlow suggests that the infection persists for life.