A modest kink within an aligned row
Mostly narrow hairpin capillaries with mild bends in some limbs, including a small central kink.
Image details
- Pattern
- Tortuous capillaries
- Author or contributor
- Borja Gracia Tello
- Hallmarks
- Tortuous capillariesSimple hairpin loops
- Magnification
- 250×
- Device
- Smart G-Scope
- Field of view (W × H)
- ≈ 2.34 × 1.32 mm
Teaching point
Mild tortuosities or one or two crossings may be seen in healthy people.
Measurements and calibration
For the subset of apices with stable automated measurements, estimated widths span approximately 13–24 µm. These are automated estimates, not manually validated measurements.
Clinical caveat
This image illustrates a visual finding and should be interpreted with acquisition quality, distribution across fingers, clinical context, and serology when relevant.
Use and licensing
Third-party image. Refer to the credits and any image-specific terms of use.
- Creator
- Borja Gracia Tello
Suggested attribution
A modest kink within an aligned row — Borja Gracia Tello, via Capillaroscopy.com. CC BY 4.0. Source: https://capillaroscopy.com/en/library/gracia-tello-tortuous-005/ Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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