Meesa bands


Meesa bands (Aldrich-Mees' bands) - white bands within the fingertips of the fingers and toes. Their incidence may be attributed to arsenic or thallium poisoning, heart failure, pelagic failure, renal failure, sickle cell anemia. They move closer to the end of the nail plate as it grows. The Dutch physician R.A. Mees in 1914, the same anomaly was described by Englishman E.S. Reynolds in 1901 and American C.J. Aldrich in 1904.

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