Pre-treatment of nickel test areas with sodium lauryl sulfate detects nickel sensitivity in subjects reacting negatively to routinely performed patch tests

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 88-92

  Seidenari, Stefania ^a   Motolese, Alberico ^a   Belletti, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echography; Negative nickel patch tests; Nickel sensitivity; Patch testing technique; Pre treatment of patch test area; Sodium lauryl sulfate

Indexed keywords

DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; NICKEL; NICKEL SULFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATCH TEST; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NICKEL; PATCH TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 0030038958     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1996.tb02136.x     Document Type: Article

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