Effect of skin phototype on quantitative nailfold capillaroscopy.
Vir Singh NegiChengappa G KavadichandaSaikumar DungaAnoop MathewAishwarya GGayathri M SGorijavolu MamathaMolly Mary ThabahVir Singh NegiPublished in: Journal of scleroderma and related disorders (2022)
The number of capillaries visualized during nailfold capillaroscopy decreases as the skin pigmentation increases. There is a need to redefine the nailfold capillaroscopy density and avascularity by taking skin phototype as one of the determinants before labeling a nailfold capillaroscopy finding with less visualized capillaries as abnormal.