Mees' lines

As Mees nail strips (also: Mees' nail strips ) are dull gray Querstreifungen to finger and toe nails denotes that come through intoxication with arsenic or thallium or as a result of chemotherapy with cytostatics about and represent an important finding, especially in forensic medicine.

Named after the Dutch doctor RA Mees phenomenon has been previously described by other authors. The advancing with the growth of the nails strips are visible after a survived intoxication.

When interpreting the findings, the more symptoms are always observed, as Mees' spike strips for themselves do not have a demonstrative character of intoxication.