Positive patch test reactions to lanolin: Cross-sectional data from the North American contact dermatitis group, 1994 to 2006

Dermatitis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 79-88

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; LANOLIN; LANOLIN ALCOHOL; PETROLATUM; STEROID; ALLERGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATCH TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SKIN SENSITIZATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; HAND DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLERGENS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; LANOLIN; LEG DERMATOSES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PATCH TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 68049137811     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2009.08081     Document Type: Article

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