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Nailfold capillary microscopy

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.11.1004

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    Microscopic examination of nailfold capillaries is accepted as an investigational tool for adults with connective tissue diseases. Abnormalities are found in more than 80% of adult patients with scleroderma or related disorders. There are fewer data about children but workers in Birmingham (

    P Dolezalova and colleagues. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases2003;62:444–9
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    ) have described their findings in healthy adults and children and in children with rheumatic diseases.

    They performed nailfold capillary microscopy (nailfold capillaroscopy, NFC) …

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