Airborne allergic contact dermatitis caused by Apuleia leiocarpa in a parquet fitter.

A 62-year-old male carpenter working as a parquet floor fitter, with no previous skin disease, presented with an outbreak of itchy, erythematous and scaly lesions on the back of the hands, neck, cheeks, and forehead. He had experienced a similar episode 1month earlier. On both occasions, the patient had beenworking 48h earlier with an unusual parquet wood imported from Brazil, named garapia. The eczematous lesions were already resolving when he attended the clinic; the distribution suggested an airborne pattern (Fig. 1). With avoidance of further