Anil Agarwal, Anubrat Kumar, Deepshikha Khanna, Abbas Shaharyar, Mohd Shafi Bhat, Madhusudan Mishra
BACKGROUND: The study aimed at finding whether there are any nail changes specific to treatment in clubfoot. METHODS: Sixty new, 26 undergoing serial corrective casting, and 247 clubfoot patients using foot abduction braces were prospectively studied. The casted and braced group formed the basis of the study to observe nail changes, if any. The new patients and opposite normal foot (in unilateral casted cases) were taken as controls. OBSERVATIONS: Acute paronychia, ingrown toe nail, onychoshizia, onychorrhexis, nail plate concavity, latent onychomadesis, and distal onycholysis were observed in feet undergoing corrective casting and bracing...
December 2016: Foot and Ankle Surgery: Official Journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons