1st Edition
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.
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
- 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
Biography
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
