The role of patch testing in the selection and management of metal device implants

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-694

  Mowad, Christen M ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ARTHRALGIA; DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JOINT CAVITY; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METAL DEVICE IMPLANT; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATCH TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SKIN ALLERGY;

METAL;

DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PATCH TESTS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 84862694981     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2012.86     Document Type: Note

References (2)

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2. Reed KB, Davis MD, Nakamura K, Hanson L, Richardson DM. Retrospective evaluation of patch testing before or after metal device implantation. Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(8):999-1007.