Highlights onychomadesis as a potential complication of Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease in infants.
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Recognition of post-HFMD onychomadesis may aid diagnosis; Level 5 data leave open incidence and monitoring needs.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is one of the main viral infections in childhood, and although it is known to present a benign and self-limited course, it can also present a spectrum of long and short term complications among which dermatological manifestations and nail manifestations such as onychomadesis stand out, which although it is related to other etiologies is considered a secondary complication to viral diseases when preceded by symptoms suggestive of the same.
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