Contact dermatitis to topical medicaments: A retrospective chart review from the Ottawa hospital patch test clinic

Dermatitis

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 210-213

  Spring, Shanna ^a   Pratt, Melanie ^a   Chaplin, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACITRACIN; BENZOCAINE; BUDESONIDE; CINCHOCAINE; CONTACT ALLERGEN; FRAMYCETIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEOMYCIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PETROLATUM; STEROID; TIXOCORTOL PIVALATE; TOPICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ATOPY; CANADA; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS ALLERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATCH TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN ALLERGY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACITRACIN; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DRUG ERUPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOMYCIN; ONTARIO; PATCH TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84871322806     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DER.0b013e31826e443c     Document Type: Review

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