Therapies for Nail Disorders A Quick Guide to Best Practice

This concise text presents the essential points of diagnosis and a quick guide to what are currently the best evidence-based practices in treatment methods. In addition to material on the diseases themselves, there are useful appendices on how to carry out ancillary procedures.

Table of Contents

1. Acute paronychia Jorge Ocampo-Garza and Patricia Chang
2. Bowen’s disease Leah Cohen and Martin N Zaiac
3. Brittle nails Tatiana Vilas Boas Gabbi
4. Chronic paronychia Walter Refkalefsky Loureiro and Hind M. Almohanna
5. Eczema Azhar Abbas Ahmed and Antonella Tosti
6. Erythronychia Cristina Diniz Borges Figueira de Mello
7. Glomus tumor Emerson Henrique Padoveze and Suelen Montagner
8. Hematomas Shari R Lipner
9. Herpes simplex Matilde Iorizzo
10. Ingrowing nail Azzam Alkhalifah, Florence Dehavay, and Bertrand Richert
11. Lichen planus Bianca Maria Piraccini, Aurora Alessandrini, and Michela Starace
12. Melanonychias Nilton Di Chiacchio and Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio
13. Myxoid cysts Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio and Nilton Di Chiacchio
14. Melanoma Eckart Haneke
15. Onychomatricoma Glaysson Tassara Tavares
16. Onychomycosis Roberto Arenas, Sabrina Escandón-Pérez, and Eder R. Juárez-Durán
17. Onychotillomania Sarah Azarchi and Evan A. Rieder
18. Onycolysis Shari R. Lipner and Carlton Ralph Daniel, III
19. Psoriasis Stamatis Gregoriou, Eftychia Platsidaki, and Dimitris Rigopoulos
20. Retronychia Thomas Knackstedt and Nathaniel Jellinek
21. Squamous cell carcinoma Adriana Guadalupe Peña-Romero and Judith Dominguez-Cherit
22. Subungual exostosis Leandro Fonseca Noriega
23. Trachyonychia Jacob Griggs, Brandon Burroway, and Antonella Tosti
24. Transverse overcurvature Tracey C. Vlahovic
25. Warts Sonali Nanda, Rachel Fayne, and Martin N Zaiac
26. Yellow nail syndrome Michela Starace, Aurora Alessandrini, and Bianca Maria Piraccini

Appendixes

1. Practical procedures Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio, Cristina Diniz Borges Figueira de Mello, and Nilton Di Chiacchio
2. Preparing a biopsy specimen Curtis T. Thompson

Index