Clinical Cases in Nail Disorders

Dr Tosti is Fredric Brandt Endowed Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami. She trained in Dermatology in Bologna, Italy, which is the oldest University in the world ,and was full Professor of Dermatology in Bologna before moving to Miami in 2010.Dr Tosti is internationally recognized as an expert on hair and nail disorders. She was president of the European Nail Society and Council of Nail Disorders. She is regularly invited worldwide as a speaker and she has been directing sessions and symposia at the AAD, EADV and World Congress of Dermatology. She organized several meetings on diagnosis and treatment of hair and nail disorders in Italy including a very successful annual Course on hair, nail and cosmetics in Capri. She is editor in Chief of Skin Appendage Disorders. Dr Tosti has trained hundreds of dermatologists from around the world and is proud to say that many of them are today recognized as experts in hair and nail disorders.Dr. Brian Morrison is a board-certified dermatologist with expertise in the areas of nail disease, nail surgery, global medicine, and graduate education. He received his undergraduate training at NYU School of Medicine and trained during residency at the University of Miami. He is an associate professor and the residency director for the Dr. Philip Frost Department of Dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the University of Miami. Dr. Morrison offers clinical services dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of nail disease, including nail surgery. As a residency director, he is deeply committed to teaching his students and residents, especially how to perform nail procedures. He is an invited national and international lecturer in the subject of nail disease with many publications in this area.The main fields of Prof Lotti’s scientific research are focused on the study of neuropeptides and cytokines in numerous skin diseases, of plasminogen activators in autoimmune dermatoses, clinical aspects and treatment of psoriasis vulgaris with particular attention to new therapies with biological agents. Of particular relevance, his research and clinical experience on prevention and therapy in Dermatological Oncology, Vitiligo and Pigmentation Disorders, Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI), Covid-19, Clinical and Experimental Oncology, autoimmune and chronic inflammatory skin disorders.He is the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief (1992-2002) of the JEADV, Editor in Chief of the Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia (2009-2011) and Associate Editor and finally Editor in Chief of Dermatologic Therapy (2014-2022). After 2022 Editor in Chief of the Journal of Applied Cosmetology. He has been President of the ESCAD (2003-2004), Secretary General and finally President of the ISD (1999-2011), President of the Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Venereologia (2009-2011). Co-founder and Executive Chair of the Vitiligo Research Foundation-NY, NY (2011-present) and President World Health Academy of Dermatology (2015-present)

• Double Nail of The 5th Toe.- Drug-induced splinter nail haemorrhages in a patient with Sézary syndrome.- Nail changes associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease.- Secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon with gangrene in the setting of systemic sclerosis.- Onycholysis, xanthonychia and melanonychia due to Nakaseomyces glabrata (Candida glabrata).- Onychomycosis in a Toddler Secondary to Thumb-Sucking.- Frictional subungual hematoma of both big toes.- Case report: Onychomatricoma.- Red lunulae heralding onychomadesis in alopecia areata.- A 6-Year-Old Girl with oyster shell-like toe nails.- Periungual chromoblastomycosis successfully treated with 5% topical imiquimod.- A painful subungual bluish discoloration.- Darier disease with V-nicking of the nails.- Koenen’s tumors (periungual angiofibromas).- Lichen striatus affecting the nail.- Hemorrhagic Onycholysis Secondary to Docetaxel.- A Case of Onychopapilloma Presenting as Longitudinal Erythronychia.- White nails in a man with hepatic cirrhosis.- Chroma Quest: A Tale of Melanonychia Mayhem.- Nail Changes in a Chronic Male Smoker.- A Case of Severe Onychogryphosis.- A case of transverse white nail plate bands.- Bilateral median transverse ridging of the thumb nails in a young man.- Monodactylous longitudinal melanonychia with a  Hutchinson sign in a  pentagenarian woman.- Monodactylous longitudinal xanthonychia in a middle-aged woman.- Twenty-nail transverse leuko- and melanonychia striata in elderly man.- Unraveling neurological disorders through dermatological signs.- A red subungual mass under the thumbnail.- Nail dystrophy and lymphedema.- Pediatric Nail Matrix Nevus: Diagnostic Challenges and Management Strategies.- Acquired Pincer Nail deformity of the Right Thumb.- Photonycholysis induced by UVA curing of acrylic gel nail in a patient treated with doxycycline.- A subungual onycholemmal cyst presenting as a pigmented band.- Nail Findings in an Expectant Mother.- Longitudinal melanonychia of left hand thumb nail after contact dermatitis.- Onychomadesis of multiple nails secondary to quinolone.- Reddish-brown distal band in toenails-A sign of systemic diseases.- Chronic Paronychia and Upward Growth of Nail Plates.- Scaling Skin with Vertical Nail Plate Growth.- Onychomatricoma with Clinical and Ultrasonographic Correlation.- Sarcoidosis of the nail: the greatest imitator.- Lightening-storm periungual capillaries in patient with complex regional pain syndrome type 1.