Contact dermatitis: prognosis, risk factors, and rehabilitation.

Semin Dermatol

Department of Dermatology, University of Miami, FL.

Published: September 1990

This article reviews the prognosis for irritant and allergic contact dermatitis and occupational and nonoccupational contact dermatitis. Factors adversely affecting prognosis are discussed. Rehabilitation of the patient with disabling contact dermatitis is considered. The importance of the various risk factors for contact dermatitis are reviewed.

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