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Silk-Screen Workers

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Silk-screen printing (also called screen processing or screen printing) consists of brushing ink onto a finemesh screen that carries the image to be printed and then squeezing it through the open parts of the screen. It is used to print decals, billboard posters, wallpaper designs, lettering on bottles and clothing, and printed circuit board images in the electronics industry, as well as for printing on glass, skis, surfing planks, and credit cards. Potential irritants, such as cleansing agents and inks, may cause irritant dermatitis. Organic solvents may cause neurotoxic and other adverse effects. The actual allergens described in silk-screen printers are acrylate components of the UV-curing compounds (the most frequent allergens), epoxy resin, diaminodiphenyl-methane, and triglycidyl isocyanurate.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    A. Goossens

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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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Goossens, A. (2018). Silk-Screen 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_190-2

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