Patch tests

Patch tests were introduced as a diagnostic tool in the late nineteenth century. Since then, they have improved considerably becoming what they are today. Patch tests are used in the diagnostic investigation of contact dermatitis worldwide. Batteries or series previously studied and standardized sho...

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Autores principales: Lazzarini, Rosana, Duarte, Ida, Ferreira, Alessandra Lindmayer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013
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Continuing Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24474094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132323
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description Patch tests were introduced as a diagnostic tool in the late nineteenth century. Since then, they have improved considerably becoming what they are today. Patch tests are used in the diagnostic investigation of contact dermatitis worldwide. Batteries or series previously studied and standardized should be used in patch testing. The methodology is simple, but it requires adequate training for the results to be correctly interpreted and used. Despite having been used for over a century, it needs improvement like all other diagnostic techniques in the medical field.
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spelling pubmed-39003362014-01-29 Patch tests Lazzarini, Rosana Duarte, Ida Ferreira, Alessandra Lindmayer An Bras Dermatol Continuing Medical Education Patch tests were introduced as a diagnostic tool in the late nineteenth century. Since then, they have improved considerably becoming what they are today. Patch tests are used in the diagnostic investigation of contact dermatitis worldwide. Batteries or series previously studied and standardized should be used in patch testing. The methodology is simple, but it requires adequate training for the results to be correctly interpreted and used. Despite having been used for over a century, it needs improvement like all other diagnostic techniques in the medical field. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3900336/ /pubmed/24474094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132323 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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