The atopy patch test as a method of studying aeroallergens as triggering factors of atopic eczema

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 51-60

  Ring, Johannes ^a   Darsow, Ulf ^a   Abeck, Dietrich ^a  

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