Esoteric Contact Dermatitis. Part IV: Devastating Contact Dermatitis in India Produced by American Parthenium Weed (The Scourge of India)

Cutis

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 297-298

  Fisher, Alexander A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; SESQUITERPENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DESENSITIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TEST; PLANT; SKIN ALLERGY; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; SESQUITERPENES; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030137332     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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