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Treatment Outline for Common Nail Problems

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In many nail diseases, establishing the diagnosis is rarely difficult or time consuming, and yet the treatment protocol is less automatic. In this chapter, we outline high yield nail topics and present treatment guidelines, with high-yield workup suggestions and treatment caveats included to provide the practitioner with an “at-a glance” resource.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dermatology Professionals, Inc., East Greenwich, RI, USA

    Nathaniel J. Jellinek

  2. Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Nathaniel J. Jellinek

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Nathaniel J. Jellinek

  4. Department of Dermatology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Adam I. Rubin

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Adam I. Rubin

  2. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Nathaniel J. Jellinek

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

    C. Ralph Daniel III

  4. Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

    Richard K. Scher

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Jellinek, N.J., Rubin, A.I. (2018). Treatment Outline for Common Nail Problems. In: Rubin, A.I., Jellinek, N.J., Daniel, C.R., Scher, R.K. (eds) Scher and Daniel’s Nails. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65649-6_2

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