Therapies for Nail Disorders

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 is a useful appendix on how to carry out ancillary procedures.

Acute paronychia Jorge Ocampo-Garza and Patricia Chang Bowen's disease Leah Cohen and Martin N Zaiac Brittle nails Tatiana Vilas Boas Gabbi Chronic paronychia Walter Refkalefsky Loureiro and Hind M. Almohanna Eczema Azhar Abbas Ahmed and Antonella Tosti Erythronychia Cristina Diniz Borges Figueira de Mello Glomus tumor Emerson Henrique Padoveze and Suelen Montagner Hematomas Shari R Lipner Herpes simplex Matilde Iorizzo Ingrowing nail Azzam Alkhalifah, Florence Dehavay, and Bertrand Richert Lichen planus Bianca Maria Piraccini, Aurora Alessandrini, and Michela Starace Melanonychias Nilton Di Chiacchio and Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio Myxoid cysts Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio and Nilton Di Chiacchio Melanoma Eckart Haneke Onychomatricoma Glaysson Tassara Tavares Onychomycosis Roberto Arenas, Sabrina Escandon-Perez, and Eder R. Juarez-Duran Onychotillomania Sarah Azarchi and Evan A. Rieder Onycolysis Shari R. Lipner and Carlton Ralph Daniel, III Psoriasis Stamatis Gregoriou, Eftychia Platsidaki, and Dimitris Rigopoulos Retronychia Thomas Knackstedt and Nathaniel Jellinek Squamous cell carcinoma Adriana Guadalupe Pena-Romero and Judith Dominguez-Cherit Subungual exostosis Leandro Fonseca Noriega Trachyonychia Jacob Griggs, Brandon Burroway, and Antonella Tosti Transverse overcurvature Tracey C. Vlahovic Warts Sonali Nanda, Rachel Fayne, and Martin N Zaiac Yellow nail syndrome Michela Starace, Aurora Alessandrini, and Bianca Maria Piraccini Appendixes Practical procedures Nilton Gioia Di Chiacchio, Cristina Diniz Borges Figueira de Mello, and Nilton Di Chiacchio Preparing a biopsy specimen Curtis T. Thompson Index