Positive patch-test reactions to mixed dialkyl thioureas: Cross-sectional data from the North American Contact Dermatitis Group, 1994 to 2004

Dermatitis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 190-201

  Warshaw, Erin M ^a   Cook, Jeremy W ^a   Belsito, Donald V ^a   DeLeo, Vincent A ^a   Fowler Jr , Joseph F ^a   Maibach, Howard I ^a   Marks Jr , James G ^a   Mathias, C G Toby ^a   Pratt, Melanie D ^a   Rietschel, Robert L ^a   Sasseville, Denis ^a   Storrs, Frances J ^a   Taylor, James S ^a   Zug, Kathryn A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 IMIDAZOLIDINETHIONE; ALLERGEN; BUTYLETHYLTHIOUREA; DIBUTYLTHIOUREA; DIETHYLTHIOUREA; DIMETHYLTHIOUREA; RUBBER; THIOCARBANILIDE; THIOUREA; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CONTACT URTICARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYELID; FACE; FEMALE; FOOT; GLOVE; HAND; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK; NEWBORN; NORTH AMERICA; NUMMULAR DERMATITIS; OCCUPATION; PATCH TEST; PHOTODERMATOSIS; POMPHOLYX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SHOE; SKIN ALLERGY; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLERGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOTHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPRENE; NORTH AMERICA; PATCH TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUBBER; THIOUREA;

EID: 38149007547     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2008.07038     Document Type: Article

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