Contact sensitization to the allergens of european baseline series in patients with chronic leg ulcers

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 480-485

  Beliauskiene, Aiste ^a   Valiukevičiene, Skaidra ^a   Šitkauskiene, Brigita ^a   Schnuch, Axel ^b   Uter, Wolfgang ^c  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Benzocaine; Lanolin alcohol; Leg ulcers; p phenylenediamine; Patch tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856687263     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina47090072     Document Type: Article

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