Atypical chronic sterile paronychia leading to tissue and joint space destruction in a patient with thromboangiitis obliterans

Abstract

We report the case of a patient with severe thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease) and untreated paronychia which eroded into the digital joint space causing acrolysis of digits and significant soft tissue and joint destruction.

Keywords: Buerger's disease; chronic paronychia; joint destruction; thromboangiitis obliterans.