Positive patch-test reactions to propylene glycol: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis from the North American Contact Dermatitis Group, 1996 to 2006

Dermatitis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-20

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

^a North American Contact Dermatitis Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO 2 BROMOMETHYLGLUTARONITRILE; 2 PHENOXYETHANOL; BACITRACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COSMETIC; FORMALDEHYDE; FRAGRANCE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; TIXOCORTOL PIVALATE; TOPICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; CREAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; PATCH TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649143473     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2008.08039     Document Type: Article

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