On the lookout for precursor lesions: Where does dry skin end and slight hand eczema begin?

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 63-71

  Baumeister, Thomas ^a   Uter, Wolfgang ^a   Weistenhöfer, Wobbeke ^a   Drexler, Hans ^a   Kütting, Birgitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

distribution pattern; hand eczema score; metal workers; occupational hand eczema; occupational screenings; precursor lesions; predilection sites; wet work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HAND; HAND ECZEMA; HAND ECZEMA SCORE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SCREENING; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN CRUSTING; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; XERODERMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; ECZEMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855699624     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2011.01969.x     Document Type: Article

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