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

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