Natural rubber latex allergy

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-17

  Kahn, Steven L ^a   Podjasek, Joshua O ^a,b   Dimitropoulos, Vassilios A ^a,b   Brown, Clarence W ^a,b  

^a University Dermatology   (United States)

^b St Joseph Dermatology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUBBER;

ALLERGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION; ACTINIDIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; CROSS REACTION; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FOOD ALLERGY; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOLOGY; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MANGIFERA; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MUSA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATCH TEST; POTATO; PREVALENCE; TOMATO;

ACTINIDIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATITIS, IRRITANT; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HAND DERMATOSES; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MANGIFERA; MUSA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATCH TESTS; PREVALENCE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84955694669     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: 15578194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2015.11.002     Document Type: Review

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