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Podiatric physicians have a unique practice situation, as they generally manage onychomycosis cases on a daily basis and in a specialized population (diabetes, Chap. 17). However, toenail disease may be caused by a variety of issues that are specifically foot related and not fungal related: trauma from shoes, biomechanical issues and forces, and infection compounded by shoe gear and adjacent skin conditions to the nails (i.e., interdigital tinea pedis). It is important when discussing the management and treatment of toenail onychomycosis that the visually similar biomechanical causes of nail dystrophy are also mentioned.

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  1. Department of Podiatric Medicine, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, 148 N 8th St, Philadelphia, 19107, PA, USA

    Tracey C. Vlahovic DPM, FFPM RCPS (Glasg)

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  1. Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

    Antonella Tosti

  2. Department of Podiatric Medicine, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Tracey C. Vlahovic

  3. Mycology Section, Dr. Manuel Gea González General Hospital, México, DF, Mexico

    Roberto Arenas

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Vlahovic, T.C. (2017). The Podiatric Approach. In: Tosti, A., Vlahovic, T., Arenas, R. (eds) Onychomycosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44853-4_19

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