UPC: 9788847053038 | Nail Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management (Hardcover)

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This book is designed to meet the need for a concise easy-to-read text on how to approach and manage patients with nail diseases. The book opens with a description of nail anatomy and physiology followed by a review of nail symptoms divided according to the part of the nail apparatus involved. Non-invasive and invasive tools for the diagnosis of nail disorders are then described and insights provided into their appropriate use. Subsequent chapters review the various nail diseases covering hereditary traumatic inflammatory environmentally induced drug-induced and neoplastic conditions as well as disorders due to systemic diseases. Informative high-quality illustrations are included for each disorder and boxes helpfully summarize the most important features clues to diagnosis necessary examinations and treatments. Closing chapters address nail conditions in children and the elderly. Nail Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management will be an invaluable ready source of information for students in dermatology clinical practitioners and podiatrists.