Contact sensitization by age group in adults: Patch-test data from the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1996 to 2006

Dermatitis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 287-291

  Landeck, Lilla ^a   Gonzalez, Ernesto ^a   Baden, Lynn A ^a   Neumann, Konrad ^a   Schalock, Peter C ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BALSAM PERU; FRAGRANCE; NICKEL SULFATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; PATCH TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN ALLERGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350324960     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6620.2009.08118     Document Type: Article

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