Handbook of Occupational Dermatology

This text combines a highly practical approach to the occupational dermatoses with the skill and experience of scientists who have specialized in this area of clinical and experimental dermatology. The spectrum of diseases covered includes allergic and irritant dermatitis, contact urticaria, photodermatoses, systemic reactions due to percutaneous absorption, infectious diseases and skin tumors. Furthermore, diseases predisposing to occupational skin problems such as atopic dermatitis and psoriasis are discussed. This book provides badly needed information for daily patient management and presents precise job descriptions and algorithms how to optimize the diagnostic procedure for high quality patient care and expert opinion in occupational dermatology.

List of contents

Clinical Epidemiology.- Classification of Occupants.- Dermatotoxicology.- Systemic Toxicity.- Occupational Marks.- Job Fitness Evaluation.- Diagnostic Patch Testing.- Therapy.- Prevention and Rehabilitation.- Computerized Product Database.- Job Descriptions with their Irritants and Allergens.- List of Patch Test Allergens.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Elsner, Howard I. Mitarb. Maibach, Jan E. Wahlberg
• Assisted by: Lasse Kanerva (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9783540640462
• ISBN: 978-3-540-64046-2
• No. of pages: 1300
• Weight: 2894 g
• Illustrations: w. 70 col. and 124 b&w figs.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine