The outcome of an additional patch-test reading on days 6 or 7

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 330-335

  Jonker, Maureen J ^a   Bruynzeel, Derk P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Late readings; Methylchloroisothiazolinone+methylisothiazolinone; Neomycin; Nickel; P tertiary butylphenol formaldehyde resin; Patch tests; Tixocortol 21 pivalate

Indexed keywords

4 TERT BUTYLPHENOL; ALLERGEN; FORMALDEHYDE; NEOMYCIN; NICKEL SULFATE; RESIN; TIXOCORTOL PIVALATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATCH TEST; REACTION TIME; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ALLERGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLERGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034079745     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0536.2000.042006330.x     Document Type: Article

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