A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis

Emergency department visits due to dermatologic disease is quite rare. Euphorbia helioscopia is a widely distributed plant in rural areas. E. helioscopia related contact dermatitis (Irritant contact dermatitis or allergic contact dermatitis) are known however only a few case reported in literature....

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Autores principales: Bucak, Ibrahim Hakan, Almis, Habip, Tepe, Birgul, Turgut, Mehmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27857991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2016.09.001
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Almis, Habip
Tepe, Birgul
Turgut, Mehmet
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description Emergency department visits due to dermatologic disease is quite rare. Euphorbia helioscopia is a widely distributed plant in rural areas. E. helioscopia related contact dermatitis (Irritant contact dermatitis or allergic contact dermatitis) are known however only a few case reported in literature. We are reporting on three patients with contact dermatitis from E. helioscopia. Irritant contact dermatitis was occurred only one of these cases. This case refused to wash face with water. We recommend washing the face with water after contact with E. helioscopia.
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spelling pubmed-51030562016-11-17 A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis Bucak, Ibrahim Hakan Almis, Habip Tepe, Birgul Turgut, Mehmet Turk J Emerg Med Case Report Emergency department visits due to dermatologic disease is quite rare. Euphorbia helioscopia is a widely distributed plant in rural areas. E. helioscopia related contact dermatitis (Irritant contact dermatitis or allergic contact dermatitis) are known however only a few case reported in literature. We are reporting on three patients with contact dermatitis from E. helioscopia. Irritant contact dermatitis was occurred only one of these cases. This case refused to wash face with water. We recommend washing the face with water after contact with E. helioscopia. Elsevier 2016-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5103056/ /pubmed/27857991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2016.09.001 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Owner. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis
title_fullStr A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis
title_full_unstemmed A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis
title_short A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis
title_sort rare cause of emergency department visit: euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27857991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2016.09.001
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