Presentation of Yellow Nail Syndrome in a two female patients Milenkovic B, Cvejic J, Dimic Janjic S

Background: Yellow nail syndrome (YNS) is a rare disorder characterized with a specific nail dystrophy (yellowish or green nails, transverse ridging, increased curvature with “a hump” and distal onycholysis), lymphoedema and respiratory tract involvement (mainly bronchial hyper-responsiveness, recurrentpneumonia, bronchiectasis and pleural effusion), with or without sinusitis. We report two adult cases. Patients: A 50 year old women had 20 yellow nails, lymphedema of the lower limbs, pleural effusion on both sides, bronchiectasis, diagnosis of asthma and sinusitis, and pericardial effusion. A 67 year old women h…