Therapies for Nail Disorders. A Quick Guide to Best Practice

• 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, Auro

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.

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