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Occupational Contact Dermatitis

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Contact dermatitis caused by patients’ work has an unrivalled claim to our attention within the field of contact dermatitis: first, it is simply so common; second, work is such a vital psychological part of most human lives [1, 2]; and third, work matters financially to almost all individuals and to absolutely all their countries. Occupational contact dermatitis can therefore destroy the psychosocial and economic stability of patients as well as that of their skin [3].

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  1. Contact Dermatitis Clinic, St. John’s Dermatology Centre, St. Thomas’s Hospital, Lambeth Palace RD, SE1 7 EH, London, UK

    Richard J. G. Rycroft

  2. Department of Dermatology, Gentofte Hospital University of Copenhagen, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900, Hellerup, Denmark

    Torkil Menné

  3. Hautklinik der Städtischen Kliniken Dortmund, Abteilung Dermatologie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Beurhausstraße 40, 4600, Dortmund, Germany

    Peter J. Frosch

  4. Laboratoire de Dermatochimie, Université Louis Pasteur, Clinique Dermatologique, 1 Place de l’Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg Cedex, France

    Claude Benezra

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Rycroft, R.J.G. (1992). Occupational Contact Dermatitis. In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Benezra, C. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13119-0_20

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