Black Line In Nail Bed Melanoma

It may be due to certain medications underlying medical conditions trauma or injury to your nail bed radiation therapy UV light exposure or pregnancy.

Black line in nail bed melanoma. Thumb nail and great toenail are most often affected. Dark stripes running down the nails linear melanonychia are fairly common in black people over 20 years of age. Children cant get it.

Wrong whites can get this disease though its much more common in blacks and Asians. A person with linear melanonychia may have dark stripes running down the nails. Weakened immune systems due to immunosuppressant drugs or disease.

There are cases of pediatric subungual melanoma. They also tend to be comprised of varying shades of brown to black or if just brown the shades usually still vary. Subungual melanoma is classified as a subtype of acral lentiginous melanoma an uncommon form of melanoma that occurs in the glaborous skin of the palms and soles.

Melanoma the deadliest skin cancer can show up as a stripe black line on nails. A STRIPE IS MELANOMA. In the International Dermoscopy Society survey evaluating dermoscopic clues in pigmented nail bands melanoma cases were significantly associated with 4.

Longitudinal brown to black parallel lines with irregular colouration spacing or thickness. Melanonychia is when you have brown or black lines on your nails. Dermoscopic features of nail matrix melanoma include.

In most cases its perfectly normal. Grey and black colours. This fingernail condition includes black lines on the nails nail discoloration andor excessive pigmentation.