Contact allergy in the population of patients with chronic inflammatory dermatoses and contact hypersensitivity to corticosteroids.
CONCLUSIONS: The most important risk factors for developing contact allergy to corticosteroids appear to be chronic inflammatory dermatoses, long disease duration, extended on-and-off topical corticosteroid use, patients presenting two or more positive patch test results and polyvalent contact allergy to metal salts and to other non-steroidal haptens.
PMID: 28670256 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Advances in Dermatology and Allergology - Category: Dermatology Tags: Postepy Dermatol Alergol Source Type: research
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