Short description:

This concise practical guide is designed to facilitate the diagnosis of nail disorders though presentation of clinical cases. Each case will drive the reader to the correct diagnosis following simple steps that will be specifically indicated for each case. These include dermoscopic evaluation, pathology and the use of other specific tools depending on the diagnosis.

Each case will also include a narrative description and patient management tips. Consequently, Clinical Cases in Nail Disorders is an important tool to help all physicians managing these patients, from dermatologists and nail specialists through to primary care physicians.

Long description:

This concise practical guide is designed to facilitate the diagnosis of nail disorders though presentation of clinical cases. Each case will drive the reader to the correct diagnosis following simple steps that will be specifically indicated for each case. These include dermoscopic evaluation, pathology and the use of other specific tools depending on the diagnosis.

Each case will also include a narrative description and patient management tips. Consequently, Clinical Cases in Nail Disorders is an important tool to help all physicians managing these patients, from dermatologists and nail specialists through to primary care physicians.

Table of Contents:

Double Nail of The 5th Toe.- Drug-induced splinter nail haemorrhages in a patient with Sézary syndrome.- Nail changes associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease.- Secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon with gangrene in the setting of systemic sclerosis.- Onycholysis, xanthonychia and melanonychia due to Nakaseomyces glabrata (Candida glabrata).- Onychomycosis in a Toddler Secondary to Thumb-Sucking.- Frictional subungual hematoma of both big toes.- Case report: Onychomatricoma.- Red lunulae heralding onychomadesis in alopecia areata.- A 6-Year-Old Girl with oyster shell-like toe nails.- Periungual chromoblastomycosis successfully treated with 5% topical imiquimod.- A painful subungual bluish discoloration.- Darier disease with V-nicking of the nails.- Koenen’s tumors (periungual angiofibromas).- Lichen striatus affecting the nail.- Hemorrhagic Onycholysis Secondary to Docetaxel.- A Case of Onychopapilloma Presenting as Longitudinal Erythronychia.- White nails in a man with hepatic cirrhosis.- Chroma Quest: A Tale of Melanonychia Mayhem.- Nail Changes in a Chronic Male Smoker.- A Case of Severe Onychogryphosis.- A case of transverse white nail plate bands.- Bilateral median transverse ridging of the thumb nails in a young man.- Monodactylous longitudinal melanonychia with a  Hutchinson sign in a  pentagenarian woman.- Monodactylous longitudinal xanthonychia in a middle-aged woman.- Twenty-nail transverse leuko- and melanonychia striata in elderly man.- Unraveling neurological disorders through dermatological signs.- A red subungual mass under the thumbnail.- Nail dystrophy and lymphedema.- Pediatric Nail Matrix Nevus: Diagnostic Challenges and Management Strategies.- Acquired Pincer Nail deformity of the Right Thumb.- Photonycholysis induced by UVA curing of acrylic gel nail in a patient treated with doxycycline.- A subungual onycholemmal cyst presenting as a pigmented band.- Nail Findings in an Expectant Mother.- Longitudinal melanonychia of left hand thumb nail after contact dermatitis.- Onychomadesis of multiple nails secondary to quinolone.- Reddish-brown distal band in toenails-A sign of systemic diseases.- Chronic Paronychia and Upward Growth of Nail Plates.- Scaling Skin with Vertical Nail Plate Growth.- Onychomatricoma with Clinical and Ultrasonographic Correlation.- Sarcoidosis of the nail: the greatest imitator.- Lightening-storm periungual capillaries in patient with complex regional pain syndrome type 1.