Immediate and delayed allergic hypersensitivity to corticosteroids: Practical guidelines

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-45

  Baeck, Marie ^a   Goossens, An ^b  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Corticosteroids; Cross reactions; Delayed hypersensitivity; Guidelines; Immediate hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

AMCINONIDE; BETAMETHASONE; BUDESONIDE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CLOPREDNOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE ACETATE; DESONIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIFLUCORTOLONE VALERATE; DIFLUPREDNATE; FLUDROCORTISONE ACETATE; FLUOROMETHOLONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE 17 BUTYRATE 21 PROPIONATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MEDRYSONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACEPONATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; PETROLATUM; PREDNICARBATE; PREDNISOLONE HEMISUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE PIVALATE; TIXOCORTOL PIVALATE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; TRIAMCINOLONE HEXACETONIDE; TRYPTASE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BASOPHIL ACTIVATION TEST; BRONCHOSPASM; BURNING SENSATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC RHINITIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROSS REACTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DERMATITIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECZEMA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EPIPHORA; HALOGENATION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NOSE CONGESTION; PATCH TEST; PERINASAL DERMATITIS; PERIORAL DERMATITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRURITUS; ROSACEA; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN ATROPHY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STOMATITIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; URTICARIA;

EID: 83455230704     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2011.01967.x     Document Type: Article

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