Onicomicose: tratamento, análise laboratorial e revisão

Abstract

Onychomycosis is a disease caused by fungus, which affects the nails of hands and feet causing morphological changes in the nail plate and runs inflammation. As the committed changes and the proportion involved in infection of the nail caused by fungi are classified into four types: distal subungual onychomycosis and lateral white superficial onychomycosis, proximal subungual onychomycosis onychomycosis and with full dystrophy. The disease has a higher incidence in tropical regions due to the favorable climate for the successful development of the species. Onychomycosis is ringworm harder surface to be treated even with the correct diagnosis is often be repeat offenders. Of infections in the nails onychomycosis accounts for 50 % of them, affecting about 5 % of world population. The treatment of onychomycosis is based on two types of medication, the topical and systemic use. In many cases there may be.errors in diagnosis. 's Disease is difficult to treat and difficult diagnosis objective of this research is to evaluate methods of diagnosis and treatment.