Correlation between conjunctival provocation test results and conjunctival symptoms in pollinosis - Preliminary report

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-20

  Lipiec, Agnieszka ^a   Rapiejko, Piotr ^b   Samoliński, Bolesław ^a   Krzych, Edyta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conjunctival provocation test; Grass pollen count; Pollinosis; Seasonal conjunctivitis; Threshold pollen concentration

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; OCULAR PRURITUS; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLLINATION; PROVOCATION TEST; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POACEAE; POLAND; POLLEN; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEASONS;

EID: 21544436581     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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