Comparative performance of five commercial prick skin test devices

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 750-756

  Nelson, Harold S ^a   Rosloniec, Diane M ^a   McCall, Lorma I ^a   Iklé, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

devices; false negative; false positive; prick; puncture; reproducibility; Skin tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HISTAMINE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0027332947     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-6749(93)90019-C     Document Type: Article

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