Assessment of nickel release from earrings randomly purchased in China and Thailand using the dimethylglyoxime test

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-240

  Hamann, Carsten R ^a   Hamann, Dathan J ^a   Hamann, Quinlan J ^a   Hamann, Curtis P ^b   Boonchai, Waranya ^c   Li, Lin Feng ^d   Thyssen, Jacob P ^e  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SmartPractice   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dimethylglyoxime test; Earrings; Nickel allergy; Nickel release; Prevalence; Risk exposure; XRF spectrometry

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLGLYOXIME; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; JEWELRY; METAL EXTRACTION; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THAILAND; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CHINA; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; EAR, EXTERNAL; HUMANS; JEWELRY; NICKEL; OXIMES; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; THAILAND;

EID: 77950482267     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01694.x     Document Type: Article

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