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. 1994 Feb;32(2):103-12.
doi: 10.1016/0278-6915(94)90170-8.

Contact urticaria and its mechanisms

J Harvell  1 , M Bason, H Maibach
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Contact urticaria and its mechanisms

J Harvell et al. Food Chem Toxicol. 1994 Feb.

Abstract

This paper reviews the syndrome of contact urticaria in terms of current knowledge regarding pathophysiological mechanisms. The three mechanistic categories into which contact urticants are grouped include: (1) immunological contact urticaria, (2) non-immunological contact urticaria and (3) uncertain-mechanism-mediated contact urticaria. Within this schema, the clinical manifestations, diagnosis and therapy of contact urticaria are presented.

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