white transverse stripe on nail
Last reviewed 01/2018
These are single transverse or multiple white bands that may occur on the nail pate (they do not blanch)
- a nonspecific reaction pattern classically associated with arsenic intoxication
- causes of Mee's lines include (1):
- arsenic poisoning
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- cardiac failure
- childbirth
- chemotherapeutic drugs
- Hodgkin's disease
- leprosy
- malaria
- myocardial infarction
- pellagra
- pneumonia
- psoriasis
- renal failure
- sickle cell anemia
- thallium poisoning
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Reference:
- Zaiac MN, Daniel CR. Nails in systemic disease Dermatologic Therapy 2002;15 (2); 99-106.