Green Nails

Green Nails

A 53-year-old intensive care nurse receiving monotherapy with efalizumab for psoriasis involving her arms, legs, and nails presented with a several-week history of slowly progressive green discoloration of both thumbnails, which were affected by psoriasis-induced onycholysis.

Which one of the following conditions is the most likely to be responsible for this clinical picture?

  1. Excessive fluoride supplementation
  2. Hyperbilirubinemia
  3. Treatment with tetracycline
  4. Trichophyton rubrum infection
  5. Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection