Patch Testing and Prick Testing: A Practical Guide Official Publication of the ICDRG

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Lachapelle, Prof. Dr. Howard I. Maibach, Prof. Dr. Johannes Ring, Prof. Dr. Ulf Darsow, Prof. Dr. Thomas Rustemeyer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Knowledge in the field of allergic contact dermatitis has grown to a great extent, due to recent advances in the chemical, immunological and clinical fields. These advances include the improved techniques of patch testing and prick testing, e.g. additional tests such as open, semi-open, repeated open application test (ROAT) and use tests, photopatch tests, atopy patch tests and provocative tests. Further, due to the ongoing changes in our environment, the series of patch tests – the so-called standards – are also regularly renewed.

This new edition is completely revised, updated and expanded, with more colour illustrations. It is a universally useful and superb guide in the management of positive and negative patch test and prick test reactions, for all practicing dermatologists, from the beginner to the well-trained expert.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The International Contact Dermatitis Research Group....Pages 1-3
The Spectrum of Diseases for Which Patch Testing is Recommended....Pages 7-32
Patch Testing Methodology....Pages 33-70
The Standard Series of Patch Tests....Pages 71-82
Photopatch Testing....Pages 83-88
The TRUE Test System....Pages 89-97
Additional Testing Procedures....Pages 99-111
Clinical Relevance of Patch Test Reactions....Pages 113-120
The Atopy Patch Test in Atopic Dermatitis....Pages 121-127
The Spectrum of Diseases for Which Prick Testing and Open (Non-Prick) Testing are Recommended....Pages 131-140
The Methodology of Open (Non-Prick) Testing, Prick Testing, and its Variants....Pages 141-152
Testing Procedures in Cutaneous Systemic Adverse Drug Reactions....Pages 155-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-195

✦ Subjects

Dermatology; Allergology; Immunology; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen