Contact Urticaria from Rubber Gloves: An Occupational Skin Disorder for Health Care Workers

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-74

  Tanglertsampan, Chuchai ^a   Patrakarn, Siriwat ^a   Vassansiri, Eam Orn ^a  

^a PRAMONGKUTKLAO HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN TEST; SURGICAL GLOVE;

ADULT; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LATEX; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0031614143     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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