Since 1965 the treatment of ingrowing toenails in the County Hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery, Sor0, Denmark, has been the commonly used wedge resection of the nail wall, nail, and nail bed, including the matrix.This method has been attributed to the hand surgeon Kanavel, but a review of the literature has shown that this is wrong.As early as 1886 Koenig ( 7 ) described the method in his textbook, but to whom the primary credit is due is rather obscure.
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