Common nail changes and disorders in older people: Diagnosis and management

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-181

  Abdullah, Lina ^a   Abbas, Ossama ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOTIN; COSMETIC; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; SILICIC ACID; TERBINAFINE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BOWEN DISEASE; BRITTLE NAIL DISORDER; CALLOSITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DARIER DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGROWN NAIL; LICHEN PLANUS; MELANOMA; MICROSURGERY; NAIL; NAIL APPARATUS MELANOMA; NAIL COLOR DEFECT; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NAIL HEMORRHAGE; NAIL INFECTION; NAIL PLATE HYPERTROPHY; NAIL ULCERATION; ONYCHOCLAVUS; ONYCHOLYSIS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; ONYCHORRHEXIS; PARONYCHIA; PSORIASIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SCOPULARIOPSIS BREVICAULIS; SPLINTER HEMORRHAGE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBUNGUAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TEST STRIP; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WOUND HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY;

EID: 79952091223     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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