Potassium dichromate sensitivity presenting as tefillin dermatitis: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: Tefillin are a religious article worn by Jewish men during daily prayer. Tefillin dermatitis secondary to potassium dichromate sensitivity is recognised, but data remain sparse.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and clinical characteristics of tefillin dermatitis.

Idiopathic Papular Dermatitis in the Spectrum of Chronic Papular Eruptions (Subacute Prurigo): Reappraisal and Diagnostic Algorithm.

Background: The clinical diagnosis of papular eruptions is common but poorly characterized in the literature and the etiology is often unknown.

Objective: To characterize the entity of idiopathic papular dermatitis in the spectrum of chronic papular eruptions.

Methods: The cohort consisted of patients who presented at a tertiary medical center in 2005-2014 with a papular eruption of at least 4 months' duration.

Patch testing in Israeli children with suspected allergic contact dermatitis: A retrospective study and literature review.

Background/objectives: Childhood allergic contact dermatitis is recognized as a significant clinical problem. The objective was to evaluate the rate of positive patch tests in Israeli children with clinically suspected allergic contact dermatitis, identify possible sex and age differences, compare results with those in Israeli adults, and review pediatric studies in the literature.

Methods: The study sample included 343 children and adolescents (197 female, 146 male; 1-18 years of age, mean age 11.

Luminex LiquiChip System for the Evaluation of Cytokine Levels in Patients with Contact Dermatitis to Potassium Dichromate.

Background: Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) is associated with increased production of cytokines. The patch test is the "gold-standard" diagnostic method, but it poses a risk of false results.

Objective: To evaluate a novel laboratory technique, the Luminex LiquiChip, which simultaneously measures blood levels of multiple cytokines, as a diagnostic tool in patients with chrome-induced ACD.

Transient idiopathic primary penoscrotal edema.

We present the case of a male born prematurely at 32 weeks gestation by cesarean section following overt symptoms of maternal preeclampsia. He developed severe penoscrotal edema anew one month from birth. No remarkable exposure or trauma was identified.

Questionnaire study of the prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis from cosmetics in Israel.

Background: The prevalence of cosmetics-related contact dermatitis is rising, owing mainly to the wider use of cosmetics by the public and the routine diagnostic use of patch tests.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of cosmetics allergy in Israel.

Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 360 female customers of pharmacies and beauty salons in two areas of the country.

Toothpaste allergy as a cause of cheilitis in Israeli patients.

Background: Allergic contact cheilitis may appear after exposure to different substances, including dental materials, toothpastes, cosmetics, foods and medications.

Objective: To compare the rate of toothpaste allergy between patients with and without cheilitis and to examine the yield of our proposed toothpaste patch test kit for use in patients with cheilitis.

Methods: A patch test kit containing 11 substances used in toothpastes was formed.

Patch-test results of chemotechnique oil and cooling fluid series in patients with suspected occupational contact dermatitis in Israel.

Background: There appear to be no published studies on the rates of positive allergic reactions to oil and cooling fluids.

Objective: To determine the yield of the oil and cooling fluid series from Chemotechnique Diagnostics in patients in Israel who are suspected to have occupational allergic contact dermatitis.

Methods: The authors reviewed the findings in 175 patients with suspected occupational contact dermatitis who worked with oil and cooling fluids and were patch-tested at two dermatologic clinics in Israel from 1999 to 2003.

Occupational contact dermatitis due to essential oils.

Background: Allergic contact dermatitis induced by the occupational use of products containing essential oils has not been studied comprehensively.

Objectives: The aim of the present report was to describe the characteristics, diagnosis, and outcome of 5 patients with occupational contact dermatitis because of essential oils attending our outpatient dermatology clinics over a 2-year period.

Patients: These patients are added to the 11 cases reported thus far in the literature.

Exogenous factors in connective tissue diseases.

Exogenous factors implicated in or suspected of precipitating connective tissue diseases are reviewed. These include environmental agents, such as ultraviolet light, drugs, chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, infectious viruses, and bacteria. The possible roles of occupational exposures and the environmental factors early in life are discussed as well.

Comparison of reactivity to allergens using the TRUE Test and IQ chamber system.

The reproducibility of the patch test is of great importance to its diagnostic utility. The objective of this study was to quantitatively and qualitatively compare the reproducibility of patch test reactions between the manufacturer-loaded TRUE Test (TT) panel and the investigator-loaded IQ Chamber (IQC) system using the European Standard Series (ESS) (Chemotechnique Diagnostics, Malmö, Sweden). Consecutive patients were simultaneously patch tested with 21 allergens using the TT and IQC system.

Standard patch test results in patients with contact dermatitis in Israel: age and sex differences.

Previous studies have shown that the prevalence of specific allergens varies by geographic area, population, age and sex. The objective of the present study was to determine the relative frequency of positive reactions to different sensitizers in Israeli patients with clinically suspected contact dermatitis (CD) and to identify possible sex and age differences. A total of 943 consecutive patients were tested for CD using the European standard patch test series.

[Pemphigus vulgaris--an alternative for steroid treatment?].

Pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune disease with a well-established immunological basis. Treatment is based on high dose and maintenance systemic corticosteroids. We report on a patient with a recurrence of full-blown pemphigus vulgaris after a trial of alternative hypnosis therapy to replace the corticosteroids.

Tefillin dermatitis.

Tefillin (phylacteries) are a religious article worn by observant Jewish men. Only two cases of allergic contact dermatitis from tefillin have been reported previously. We describe 7 new cases of tefillin contact dermatitis and review the literature on contact allergy caused by religious objects and practices.

Shoe contact dermatitis in Israel.

Background: Patch testing with the shoe series may be useful for the diagnosis of shoe contact dermatitis.

Objective: The aim of the study was to verify the usefulness of the shoe series and the association of fungal infection with positive results in the shoe series.

Methods: A total of 140 patients with suspected shoe contact dermatitis underwent patch testing with the standard series and shoe series; 41 underwent mycologic examination.