Hand eczema (HE) is a highly prevalent chronic disease affecting 15% of the population. Clinical grading systems are time-intensive and require training, making overall coarse assessment default approach in practice. We present an image-based deep learning method to automatically evaluate HE lesion surface determine their anatomical repartition. This retrospective study was based on two dataset...

Chronic hand eczema is a significant cause of morbidity. A number of treatments are traditionally used, and often useful, but in spite of this a sizeable group of patients develop chronic recalcitrant hand eczema. Retinoids are known to influence keratinization and inflammation, and acitretin has shown some effect in the treatment of chronic hand eczema. Alitretinoin (9-cis-retinoic acid) is a ...

BACKGROUND Dental workers are considered to have a high risk of developing occupational hand eczema. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of work-related hand eczema and associated risk factors in dental workers in Japan. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was sent by mail to all dental clinics of Kumamoto City, Japan. In addition, patch testing with 24 dentistry-related allergens w...

BACKGROUND Hand eczema is a common disease, and continuous preventive skin protection and skin care must be adopted to prevent a chronic course. Hand eczema is not a uniform disease, and counselling must therefore be individually tailored. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse-led counselling programme, the Healthy Skin Clinic, emphasizing the patient's self-management, resource...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based recommendations are available for the prevention of hand eczema among healthcare workers. However, the implementation of these recommendations is not always successful. OBJECTIVES To identify barriers and facilitators in the implementation of recommendations for the prevention of hand eczema among healthcare workers alongside a randomized controlled trial. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Workers in wet work occupations have a risk for developing hand eczema. Prevention strategies exist, but compliance to the proposed recommendations is poor. Therefore, a multifaceted implementation strategy (MIS) is developed to implement these recommendations to reduce hand eczema among health care workers performing wet work. METHODS/DESIGN This study is a randomised controlled t...

Hand eczema is a common occupational skin disease in healthcare workers. This is often the result of repeated contact with irritants, such as water; however, contact allergy can also be the underlying cause. In this report, we describe a patient with occupational hand eczema, caused by contact allergy to 1-propanol (CAS no. 71-23-8; synonyms n-propanol and n-propyl alcohol), which was present i...