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Exposure assessment is essential in the management of allergic contact dermatitis — when dealing with both the primary prevention of induction of contact sensitization and the secondary prevention of elicitation of contact dermatitis in sensitized individuals. An important task related to clinical work is the elucidation of relevant sources of exposure in eczema patients with positive patch test reaction(s). If the offending allergen is known from positive patch test reactions, the challenge is to explain the relevance and to reveal all the relevant exposure(s), both the one originally causing the contact allergy and subsequent sources that may maintain the allergic reactions.
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Flyvholm, MA. (2001). Exposure Assessment. In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Lepoittevin, JP. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10302-9_25
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