Contact allergy in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers - Possible role of chronic venous insufficiency

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-105

  Zmudzinska, Maria ^a   Czarnecka Operacz, Magdalena ^a   Silny, Wojciech ^a   Kramer, Lucyna ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic venous insufficiency; Chronic venous leg ulcers; Contact allergy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; METAL; OINTMENT BASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; PATCH TEST; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLERGENS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33645085588     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2006.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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