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Principles of Prevention and Protection in Contact Dermatitis (with Special Reference to Occupational Dermatology)

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Preventive dermatology, claimed to play a key role in the global management of skin diseases, is not yet accepted as a routine procedure in many circumstances of daily life [1]. Prevention of irritant and/or allergic contact dermatitis is briefly and incompletely reviewed in several textbooks on occupational and contact dermatitis [2–4]. It is therefore urgently necessary to regard prevention of occupational (and non-occupational) dermatitis as the cornerstone and/or the final aim of many research projects in the field [5].

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  1. St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas’s Hospital, SE1 7EH, London, UK

    Richard J. G. Rycroft

  2. Department of Dermatology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900, Hellerup, Denmark

    Torkil Menné

  3. Hautklinik der Städtischen Kliniken Dortmund, Abteilung Dermatologie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Beurhausstraße 40, 44137, Dortmund, Germany

    Peter J. Frosch

  4. Clinique Dermatologique Laboratoire de Dermatochimie, Univ. Louis Pasteur, 1 Place de L’Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Pierre Lepoittevin

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Lachapelle, JM. (2001). Principles of Prevention and Protection in Contact Dermatitis (with Special Reference to Occupational Dermatology). In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Lepoittevin, JP. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10302-9_42

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