Abstract
Contact dermatitis induced by topically applied medicaments was common many years ago [1–5] and is still common today [6-9]. It represents, after all, the most common type of skin pathology in the field of drug-induced dermatitis.
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Angelini, G. (1992). Topical Drugs. 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_24
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