Thoughts on sensitizers in a standard patch test series

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 241-250

  Bruze, Magnus ^a   Condé Salazar, Luis ^b   Goossens, An ^c   Kanerva, Lasse ^d   White, Ian R ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse reactions; Allergic contact dermatitis; Angry back; Clinical relevance; Delayed hypersensitivity; False negative; False pasitive; Patch test sensitization; Patch testing

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; PATCH TEST; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SKIN ALLERGY;

ALLERGENS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; HUMANS; PATCH TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032836751     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1999.tb06154.x     Document Type: Review

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