Hypersensitivity reactions to titanium: Diagnosis and management

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 7-25

  Wood, Megan M ^a   Warshaw, Erin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; ATROPINE; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; CORTICOSTEROID; COSMETIC; HAFNIUM; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; OXINIUM; PALLADIUM; PARYLENE; POLITEF; POLYMER; SILICONE; STRENGTH TO WEIGHT RATIO; SUNSCREEN; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADIUM; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ALLERGIC CONTACT STOMATITIS; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; BIDIGITAL O RING TEST; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE PIN; CARDIAC IMPLANT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CORROSION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; DERMATITIS; ELASTICITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOLD DENTAL IMPLANT; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; JOINT PROSTHESIS; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION INHIBITION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MACROPHAGE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NEUROLOGICAL IMPLANT; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS IMPLANT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER DERMATITIS; PATCH TEST; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STOMATITIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE REACTION; TITANIUM HYPERSENSITIVITY; TOOTH IMPLANT; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TRIPLE ASSAY; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE IMPLANT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ALLOYS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PATCH TESTS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84944163170     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DER.0000000000000091     Document Type: Article

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