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Nail surgery allows practitioners to diagnose or treat the majority of nail conditions. Successful nail surgery requires knowledge of anatomy and pathology, which have been detailed in prior chapters. This chapter reviews reliable approaches to common office-based procedures, including plate, bed, and matrix surgery, with punch, shave, and fusiform techniques. With a strong foundation of nail anatomy and pathology, surgeons can use these basic and intermediate surgical techniques to diagnose or treat a wide array of nail conditions.
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The matrix shave technique is demonstrated with partial proximal plate avulsion, in the setting of biopsy of longitudinal melanonychia (MP4 548,119 kb)
The lateral longitudinal biopsy technique is demonstrated, with key points focusing on complete matrix horn excision (MP4 379,959 kb)
A technique to biopsy longitudinal erythronychia with the suspicion of the diagnosis of onychopapilloma is demonstrated (MP4 417,519 kb)
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Miller, C.J., Jellinek, N.J., Damavandy, A., Etzkorn, J.R., Sobanko, J.F., Shin, T.M. (2018). Basic and Intermediate Complexity Nail Procedures. 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_34
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