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Patch-Test Concentrations and Vehicles for Testing Contact Allergens

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Patch testing is a sound, relatively safe and reasonably reliable method of identifying contact allergens in patients with allergic contact dermatitis. It has been clearly shown that patch testing is necessary in the majority of patient with eczema (Rycroft 1990). The technique of patch testing is described in Chaps. 16 and 17 (this book).

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  1. A. C. De Groot
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Section of Dermatology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, 00250, Helsinki, Finland

    Lasse Kanerva M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Erfurter Str. 35, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Peter Elsner

  3. Department of Occupational Dermatology and the National Institute for Working Life, Karolinska Hospital, 11776, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jan E. Wahlberg M.D., Ph.D.

  4. School of Medicine, University of California, Box 0989, Surge 100, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0989, USA

    Howard I. Maibach M.D.

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De Groot, A.C. (2004). Patch-Test Concentrations and Vehicles for Testing Contact Allergens. In: Kanerva, L., Elsner, P., Wahlberg, J.E., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Condensed Handbook of Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18556-4_42

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