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Barbers’ Dermatoses (Barber’s Hair Sinus)

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Abstract

Contact dermatitis is less frequent in barbers than in ladies’ hairdressers, due to the much less number of cosmetics used in male hairdressing.

The barber’s hair sinus consists of a granulomatous reaction to a cut hair, normally present in an interdigital space.

Surgical treatment is mandatory in a majority of cases.

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  1. Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

    Agustin Alomar

  2. Servicio de Dermatología Laboral, Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Conde-Salazar & Felipe Heras

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  1. Agustin Alomar
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Correspondence to Agustin Alomar .

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Swen Malte John

  2. Department of Dermato-allergology, Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark

    Jeanne Duus Johansen

  3. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Thomas Rustemeyer

  4. Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

    Peter Elsner

  5. Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Alomar, A., Conde-Salazar, L., Heras, F. (2012). Barbers’ Dermatoses (Barber’s Hair Sinus). In: John, S., Johansen, J., Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., Maibach, H. (eds) Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40221-5_121-2

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