Case presentation
A 54-year-old taxi driver was referred to our orthopaedic department with onychodystrophy on a nail of the second right finger from a year before the current presentation. No history of recent trauma, pain, or bleeding has been noted. On physical examination, onycholysis and onychodystrophy of the right second nail were revealed. The lesion had tenderness when it was compressed bilaterally.
Complete surgical excision of the nail was performed with local anaesthesia (Figure 1). On surgery of the nail plate, a lesion measuring 10 × 10 mm appeared within the nail bed. The histopathological examination revealed a subungual onycholemmal cyst (Figure 2).