How do terry nails look?
Patricia Philippe
2025-09-17 18:44:03
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Terry’s nails describes white-colored opacification of most of the nail bed, sparing a narrow 1 to 2 mm band of normal pink to brown tissue at the distal end. The opacification results in disappearance of the lunula. Terry’s nails are a sign of systemic disease, such as cirrhosis, chronic heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Patient 1: This patient has Terry’s nails. Patient 3: This patient has Terry’s nails. Patient 4: This is a middle-aged woman with Laennec’s cirrhosis. Patient 5: This is a middle-aged woman with cirrhosis.
Xavier Sauvage
2025-09-17 14:27:09
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Terry's nails are the result of changes in the nail bed vascularity, a decrease in the proximal portion and the increase in the distal edge. Usually, all the nails are affected uniformly.
All finger nails were dull white with brownish pink pigmentary band at the distal portion measuring 3 mm band width suggestive of Terry's nails.
He described it in 82 of 100 consecutive patients with cirrhosis.
His description was white nail bed showing ground-glass opacity not affected by venous congestion and indistinguishable from the lunula with a 1–2 mm distal band of normal pink.
However, Terry's criteria were later revised: The distal band width may be between 0.5 mm and 3 mm, can be brown in color and the proximal nail bed can be light pink.
In Terry's nail, the proximal three-fourth of the nail is dull pale while the distal one-fourth was pink or red.
Terry's nail is described in congestive cardiac failure, adult onset diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, chronic renal failure, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and renal transplant patients and in human immunodeficiency disease.
Gabrielle Bonneau
2025-09-17 13:58:52
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Terry’s nails is when most of your fingernail or toenail looks white, like frosted glass, except for a thin brown or pink strip at the tip.
People with Terry’s nails don’t have a half-moon shape (lunula) near their cuticles.
Instead, nearly the whole nail looks washed out.
Terry’s nails appears as a mostly white or washed-out nailbed.
Terry’s nails is a type of leukonychia.
Leukonychia refers to white discoloration in one or multiple nails.
If you have Terry’s nails, it usually affects all your fingernails.
But you can also have it on just one fingernail or one toenail.
Thibault Olivier
2025-09-17 13:47:26
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Terry’s nails is a type of nail discoloration. Most of the nail is opaque and white, apart from a band of pink or brown regular nail at the very tip. The term “Terry’s nails” refers to a certain pattern of nail discoloration. A person’s nails will be predominantly opaque and white, obscuring the lunula — the small, white semicircle at the base of the nail. The very tip of the nails will remain the usual pink or brown coloring of the nail bed. This band of color may be between 0.5 and 3 millimeters (mm) wide. People may also have ridges running the length of the nail or nail thickening. Terry’s nails is a type of nail discoloration in which most of the nail is completely white. A single band of regular pink or brown nail bed will remain at the tip of the nails.