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Contact Dermatitis: Irritant

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Irritant contact dermatitis is a nonallergic inflammatory skin disease caused by materials which penetrate the skin and cause direct skin damage. This skin disease is the most common occupational dermatosis. In this chapter, irritant contact dermatitis is discussed.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

    Arieh Ingber

  2. Department of Dermatology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqwa, Israel

    Akiva Trattner

  3. Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Liran Horev

  4. Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

    Tali Czarnowicki

  5. Dermatology Department, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Michal Solomon

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  1. Department of Pathology, Univ of Rochester School of Med, Rochester, NY, USA

    Bruce Smoller

  2. Khorramshahr, Iran

    Nooshin Bagherani

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Ingber, A., Trattner, A., Horev, L., Czarnowicki, T., Solomon, M. (2021). Contact Dermatitis: Irritant. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45134-3_31-1

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