Nummular eczema: An addition of senile xerosis and unique cutaneous reactivities to environmental aeroallergens

Dermatology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-139

  Aoyama, Hiroaki ^a   Tanaka, Misako ^a   Hara, Masahiro ^a   Tabata, Nobuko ^a   Tagami, Hachiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aeroallergen; Barrier; Hydration; IgE; Nummular eczema; Stratum corneum

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOWER LEG; MALE; NUMMULAR DERMATITIS; PATCH TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCAR FORMATION; SCRATCHING; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN SURFACE; STRATUM CORNEUM; WATER PERMEABILITY; WINTER; XEROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ECZEMA; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTRADERMAL TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PREVALENCE; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 0032720647     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018220     Document Type: Article

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