The repeated open application test: Suggestions for a scale of evaluation

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-96

  Johansen, J D ^a   Bruze, M ^b   Andersen, K E ^c   Frosch, P J ^d   Dreier, B ^d   White, I R ^e   Rastogi, S ^f   Lepoittevin, J P ^g   Menne T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Contact allergy; Morphology; ROAT; Scale of reading; Visual assessment

Indexed keywords

DEODORANT AGENT; FRAGRANCE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; HUMAN; PATCH TEST;

DEODORANTS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; HUMANS; PATCH TESTS; PERFUME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031656946     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1998.tb05850.x     Document Type: Article

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