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Contact allergy to corticosteroids

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Contact allergy to corticosteroids is not infrequent. The diagnosis is not easy because of the atypical clinical picture and difficulties encountered in testing these anti-inflammatory drugs. As in all cases of contact dermatitis, the therapy of choice is avoidance, but here also one has to keep in mind the frequent crossreactions between several corticosteroids. Groups of corticosteroids that behave in similar ways regarding contact allergy have been identified, but this does not relieve us from the need for testing all the other corticosteroid molecules.

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    Marie-Anne Morren & Ann Dooms-Goossens

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Morren, MA., Dooms-Goossens, A. Contact allergy to corticosteroids. Clinic Rev Allerg and Immunol 14, 199–208 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02780199

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