The diagnostic value of atopy patch testing and prick testing in atopic dermatitis: facts and controversies

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-44

  Lipozenčić, Jasna ^a   Wolf, Ronni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PLACEBO;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECZEMA; EGG ALLERGY; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; FOOD ALLERGY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MILK ALLERGY; NOSE CONGESTION; PATCH TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PRURITUS; RASH; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN SENSITIZATION; SNEEZING; STANDARDIZATION; SWELLING; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECZEMA; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PATCH TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 72049114196     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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