Parthenium dermatitis

Dermatitis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 183-190

  Sharma, Vinod K ^a   Sethuraman, Gomathy ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHER; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LACTONE; METHOTREXATE; POLLEN ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE; PSORALEN; SESQUITERPENE; STEROID; TIOGUANINE; WATER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGY TEST; CHRONIC ACTINIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT SENSITIVITY; DESENSITIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MIXED PATTERN DERMATITIS; PARTHENIUM DERMATITIS; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS; PATCH TEST; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PLANT; PLANT DERMATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURIGO NODULARIS LIKE ERUPTION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SKIN ALLERGY; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENS; AUSTRALIA; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATCH TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TANACETUM PARTHENIUM;

EID: 37349065085     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2007.06003     Document Type: Review

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