Presence of formaldehyde in topical corticosteroid preparations available on the Swedish market

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Goon, Anthony Teik Jin ^a,b   Gruvberger, Birgitta ^a   Persson, Lena ^a   Isaksson, Marléne ^a   Bruze, Magnus ^a  

^a Dept of Occup/Environ Dermatol ^*  (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL SKIN CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chromotropic acid; Corticosteroids; Formaldehyde; High performance liquid chromatography; Isopropanol

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALLERGEN; APOLAR SALVA; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTIMYK; DAKTACORT; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOPRENALINE; MILDISON LIPID; PEVISONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOTROPIC ACID METHOD; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CREAM; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; GEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LINIMENT; LOTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWEDEN;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALLERGENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DRUG COMPOUNDING; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0038798520     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0536.2003.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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