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 are useful appendices on how to carry out ancillary procedures.

Contents: Acute paronychia * Bowen disease * Brittle nails * Chronic paronychia * Eczema * Erythronychia * Glomus tumor * Hematomas * Herpes simplex * Ingrowing nail * Lichen planus * Melanoma * Melanonychias * Myxoid cysts * Onycholysis * Onychomatricoma * Onychomycosis * Onychotillomania * Psoriasis * Retronychia * Squamous cell carcinoma * Subungual exostosis * Trachyonychia * Transverse overcurvature * Warts * Yellow nail syndrome * Practical procedures * Preparing a biopsy specimen

Table of Contents

    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 Escandón-Pérez, and Eder R. Juárez-Durán

    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 Peña-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

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Nilton Di Chiacchio, MD, PhD: Head of the Dermatologic Clinic, Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Antonella Tosti, MD: Fredric Brandt Endowed Professor of Dermatology, Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA