Evidence-based guidelines: occupational contact dermatitis and urticaria
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U.K. standards of care for occupational contact dermatitis and occupational contact urticaria
The diagnosis of occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) and occupational contact urticaria (OCU) is a process that involves fastidious clinical and occupational history taking, clinical examination, patch testing and skin-prick testing. A temporal relationship of work and/or the presence of a rash on the hands only raises suspicion of an occupational cause, and does not necessarily confirm an oc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq075