This fully revised version of the successful Nail Disorders : A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management includes updates on new diagnostic techniques and therapeutic approaches, new original illustrations and updates, turning this easy-to-consult book in a valued daily tool for managing patients with nail diseases. The work starts with an overview of nail anatomy and physiology, followed by an examination of nail symptoms categorized by the specific parts of the nail apparatus affected. The text explains both non-invasive and invasive diagnostic tools for nail disorders, offering insights for appropriate application. Subsequent chapters cover various nail diseases, including hereditary, traumatic, inflammatory, environmentally induced, drug-induced, and neoplastic conditions, as well as disorders due to systemic diseases. Each disorder is accompanied by high-quality illustrations, as well as key features, diagnostic clues, essential examinations, and treatment options to help the reader, all summarized in helpful boxes. The closing chapters focus on nail conditions in children and the elderly. Nail Disorders: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management will serve as handy go-to resource for dermatology students, clinical practitioners, and podiatrists.

Concise, easy to consult source of updated information on nails Many high quality illustrations for each nail disease TWritten for dermatologists in practice as well as physicians in related fields

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Bianca Maria Piraccini is former Professor in Dermatology and Venereology at the University of Bologna, Italy, Head of the Dermatology Division at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy and Director of the Residents Programme in Dermatology and Coordinator of the PhD in Surgical Science and Innovative Technology at the same university. She is Voluntary Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.

After graduating with honours in 1989 from the University of Bologna Medicine School and completing her Residency in Dermatology at the same institution, she earned her PhD in Dermatological Sciences in 1995. From a position as a Researcher in Dermatology, she moved to Associate Professor and then Full Professor in Dermatology.

Her main research fields include hair biology and pathology, trichoscopy, nail biology and pathology, onychoscopy, and medical mycology. She is a member of the Italian Society of Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (SIDeMaST), the European Hair Research Society (EHRS, past president), the European Nail Society (ENS, past president), the Council for Nail Disorders (CND, member of the Board), the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), the American Hair Research Society (AHRS), and the Italian Society of Trichology (SITRI).

Prof. Piraccini was awarded the Domenico Majocchi Study Prize by the University of Bologna for the best degree thesis and the John Ebling Prize for her career in 2025 by the European Hair Research Society. She authored a Top-Accessed Article on White Superficial Onychomycosis.

Prof. Piraccini is the author of 569 peer-reviewed scientific papers -with more 11.000 citations and an h-index value of 61 (Scopus Nov 2025)- 74 chapters, and has edited 11 monographs on dermatological diseases. She has lectured widely at national and international congresses and courses.

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Chapter 1 . Nail Anatomy and Physiology for the Clinician.- Chapter 2. Nail Signs .- Chapter 3. Examination of Patients with Nail Disorders.- Chapter 4. Useful Diagnostic Techniques.- Chapter 5. Common Diseases of the Toenails.- Chapter 6. Nail Disorders Due to Environmental, Professional, and Cosmetic Causes and Auto-induced Nail Diseases.- Chapter 7. Nail Disorders Due to Dermatological Diseases.- Chapter 8. Infective Nail Disorders.- Chapter 9. Nail Signs of Systemic Diseases and Drug-Induced Nail Changes
.- Chapter 10 . Tumors of the Nails.- .Index.