Patch test results in schoolchildren. Results from the Information Network of Departments of Dermatology (IVDK) and the German Contact Dermatitis Research Group (DKG)

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 286-293

  Brasch, Jochen ^a   Geier, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Contact allergy; Epidemiology; Fragrance; Mercury; Nickel; Patch tests; Thimerosal

Indexed keywords

COBALT DERIVATIVE; CONTACT ALLERGEN; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; FRAGRANCE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; NICKEL SULFATE; PALLADIUM; THIOMERSAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATCH TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN SENSITIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGENS; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NICKEL; PATCH TESTS; PERFUME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031471628     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1997.tb02466.x     Document Type: Article

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