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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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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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