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Construction workers are in contact with wet cement products in the form of concrete (see chapter “Cement”). These workers may develop cement eczema (see chapter “Cement”). They are here defined as workers engaged on precast concrete building factories. Such factories are almost the same all over the world, with respect to pouring the concrete into molds and thereafter finishing and repairing.

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  1. Dermatology Clinic, Rødovre, Denmark

    David Bregnbak & Christian Avnstorp

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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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Bregnbak, D., Avnstorp, C. (2018). Construction Workers. 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_141-2

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