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Hand Eczema

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Textbook of Contact Dermatitis

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The terms ‘eczema’ and ‘dermatitis’ are used here interchangeably and do not imply an identified aetiology. The diagnosis ‘eczema’ has been criticized on the grounds that it is not definable [1], but as a clinical concept it is useful, understood and irreplaceable for many inflammatory dermatoses of the hands.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Contact Dermatitis Clinic, St. John’s Dermatology Centre, St. Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth Palace RD, SE1 7 EH, 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, 4600, Dortmund, Germany

    Peter J. Frosch

  4. Laboratoire de Dermatochimie, Université Louis Pasteur, Clinique Dermatologique, 1 Place de l’Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg Cedex, France

    Claude Benezra

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Cronin, E. (1992). Hand Eczema. In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Benezra, C. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13119-0_11

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