Management of ingrowing toenail

✍ Scribed by P. A. Sykes

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800770151

✦ Synopsis

Management of ingrowing toenail

Sir 1 was pleased that Mr W. R. Murray' advises segmental phenol ablation for established ingrowing toenails, but sorry that he seems to have reviewed only the medical literature and ignored the chiropodial literature.

To set the record straight, the procedure of segmental phenol ablation was proposed by chiropodists in 19452, and was being widely practised by chiropodists when Mr Murray in 1975 was still advocating avulsions and Zadik operations3. Cooper4 reported the results of 1200 phenol procedures in 1965! Further, the results of phenolization performed by chiropodists have been shown to be as good, if not better than the results achieved by surgeons'. I feel it important that the role of the chiropodists in the development of this procedure is acknowledged.