Validation of a simplified provocation instrument for diagnosis and threshold testing of symptomatic dermographism

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 399-403

  Schoepke, N ^a   Abajian, M ^a   Church, M K ^a   Magerl, M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOGRAPHISM; FOREARM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PRURITUS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATIC DERMOGRAPHISM; URTICARIA; VALIDATION STUDY; ADULT; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRESSURE; PRURITUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TESTS; URTICARIA;

EID: 84929297026     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ced.12547     Document Type: Article

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