Visible and subclinical skin changes in male and female dispatch department workers of newspaper printing plants

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 132-139

  Korinth, Gintautas ^a   Göen, Thomas ^b   Koch, Holger M ^a   Merz, Thomas ^a   Uter, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Gender; Physical skin irritation; Skin surface pH; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EVAPORATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PH EFFECTS; PRINTING;

BIOENGINEERING; NEWSPAPER PRINTING PLANTS; SKIN EXPOSURE; TRANSEPIDERMAL WATER LOSS (TEWL);

SKIN;

DETERGENT; IRRITANT AGENT; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DUST EXPOSURE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND ECZEMA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAPER INDUSTRY; PH; PRINTING; PUBLICATION; SKIN CARE; SKIN INJURY; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN WATER LOSS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DUST; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWSPAPERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PRINTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN;

BIOMETRICS; EPIDERMIS; EVAPORATION; PH; PRINTING; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 17444397748     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2005.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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