You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in paediatrics
Blue nails in a child with HIV infection
  1. Ankur Kumar Jindal,
  2. Deepti Suri
  1. Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Deepti Suri, Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh 160012, India; surideepti{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-312170

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    An 8-year-old boy with perinatally acquired HIV infection was initiated on antiretroviral therapy (zidovudine, lamivudine and nevirapine) at a CD4 count of 270 cells/μL. Three months later, he noted bluish-black pigmentation of nails starting from the base and extending distally (figure 1), more prominent in the thumbnail (figure 2). There were no other symptoms and the examination …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Ethics approval Publication Committee, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.