Imaging of the nail unit in psoriatic patients:A systematic scoping review of techniques and terminology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The growing interest in the visualization of psoriatic nail unit changes has led to the discovery of an abundance of image characteristics across various modalities.

Objective

To identify techniques for non-invasive imaging of nail unit structures in psoriatic patients and review extracted image features to unify the diverse terminology.

Methods

For this systematic scoping review, we included studies available on PubMed and Embase, independently extracted image characteristics, and semantically grouped the identified features to suggest a preferred terminology for each technique.

Results

After screening 753 studies, 67 articles on the visualization of clinical and subclinical psoriatic changes in the nail plate, matrix, bed, folds and hyponychium wer

SUBMITTER: Ortner VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9323418 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature