Onychotillomania

Classification according to ICD-10
S69	Other and unspecified injuries to the wrist and hand
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

As onychotillomania to the artificial, self-induced by the patient referred destruction of nails (usually on the fingers) and nail plates. It sometimes appears as the only sign of paranoid psychosis . Neuroleptic treatment is recommended therapeutically, local measures are classified as ineffective.

See also

• Onychophagia (nail biting)
• Skin Picking Disorder
• Trichotillomania
• Impulse control disorder

Individual evidence

1. ^ H. Zaun et al.: Pathological changes in the nail. Spitta Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-934211-69-0 , p. 21. (online)