Contact urticaria caused by obeche wood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 170-171

  Kanerva, Lasse ^a   Tuppurainen, Matti ^a   Keskinen, Helena ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carpenter; Contact urticaria; Immediate type allergy; Obeche; Occupational asthma; Occupational rhinitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CARPENTER; CASE REPORT; CONTACT URTICARIA; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRICK TEST; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SAUNA; WOOD;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INTRADERMAL TESTS; IRRITANTS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTS; RHINITIS; URTICARIA; WOOD;

EID: 0031885795     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1998.tb05691.x     Document Type: Article

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