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Highway Construction Workers

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The skin risk of highway construction workers today includes not only a wide spectrum of skin irritants and sensitizers but also burns and the natural UV radiation with development of actinic keratoses and skin carcinoma. In contrast tar keratoses and tar acne have become rare skin problems.

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  1. Division of Occupational Medicine, Suva (Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund), Luzern, Switzerland

    Hanspeter Rast

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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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Rast, H. (2018). Highway 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_162-2

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