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Contact Allergy in Children

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Textbook of Contact Dermatitis

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Allergic contact dermatitis has not been studied as extensively in children as in adults. Although there are many similarities between these two patient populations, the results obtained in adults cannot always be applied to children; a child is not simply a small version of an adult.

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  1. St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas’s Hospital, SE1 7EH, London, UK

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Goossens, A., Neyens, K., Vigan, M. (2001). Contact Allergy in Children. 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_30

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