Whitlow
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| Whitlow | |
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| Other names | Felon |
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| An infection of the pulp space of the thumb | |
| Specialty | Infectious diseases |
A whitlow or felon is an infection of the tip of the finger.[1][2][lower-alpha 1] Herpetic whitlow and melanotic whitlow (subungual melanoma) are subtypes that are not synonymous with the term felon. A felon is an "extremely painful abscess on the palmar aspect of the fingertip".[6] Whitlow usually refers to herpetic whitlow, though it can also refer to melanotic whitlow (subungual melanoma),[7] which somewhat resembles acral lentiginous melanoma. The terms whitlow and felon are also sometimes misapplied to paronychia, which is an infection of the tissue at the side or base of the nail. Felon presents with a throbbing pain, clinically.
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- ↑ "whitlow" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.; Klauss Wolff; Wolff, Klaus Dieter; Johnson, Richard R.; Suurmond, Dick; Richard Suurmond (2005). Fitzpatrick's color atlas and synopsis of clinical dermatology. McGraw-Hill Medical Pub. Division. ISBN 0-07-144019-4.
- ↑ Walter William Skeat (1895). A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Harper & Bros. pp. 560–. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
- ↑ 2flaw and 2quick from "Free Dictionary". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
- ↑ Diab, Mohammad (1999). Lexicon of Orthopaedic Etymology. Taylor & Francis. p. 115. ISBN 978-90-5702-597-6. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
- ↑ Dorland's Medical Dictionary: 29th Edition.
- ↑ Haneke E, Baran R (June 2001). "Longitudinal melanonychia". Dermatol Surg. 27 (6): 580–4. doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2001.01916.x. PMID 11442597.
