Nail Disorders A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management /

• Main Author: Piraccini, Bianca Maria (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Dermatology.; Medicine & Public Health.

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. No...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by R. Baran
• Preface
• 1 Nail Anatomy And Physiology for the Clinician
• 2 Nail Signs
• 3 Examination of Patients With Nail Disorders
• 4 Useful Diagnostic Techniques for Nail Disorders
• 5 Common Diseases of the Toenails.- 6 Nail Disorders Due to Environmental, Professional And Cosmetic Causes And Auto-Induced Nail Diseases.- 7 Nail Disorders Due to Dermatological Diseases
• 8 Infective Nail Disorders
• 9 Nail signs of systemic diseases and Drug-Induced Nail Changes.- 10. Tumors of the Nails
• Subject Index.