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Occupational Nail Disorders

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Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology

Abstract

To assess nail disorders:

Rule out nail involvement leading to a “false-positive” diagnosis in the absence of a thorough history and test laboratory.

Determine, whether it may be exacerbated or just revealed by occupational trauma.

Visualize what the hands do at work.

Look for functional distribution of the lesions.

Look for occupational stigmata on the nails.

Examine the whole skin surface and mucous membranes.

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We would like to thank the publisher for the permission to reproduce some of the tables which appeared in (Rycroft and Baran R 2001).

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    Dr. Robert Baran

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  1. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

    Peter Elsner

  3. Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Swen-Malte John

  4. Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Baran, R. (2012). Occupational Nail Disorders. In: Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., John, SM., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02035-3_25

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