Issues of Improving Clinical Classification of Onychomycosis

Abstract

Clinical classification of onychomycosis has become firmly embedded in the vocabulary of clinical dermatologists and mycologists. However, there is a certain discrepancy between the domestic approach to the classification of onychomycosis based on the degree of pathologic hyperkeratosis (normotrophic hypertrophic) and the Euro-American classification based on the injured area (distal, lateral, total). In this paper the authors prove that both classifications are organically combined with and complement each other