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PROGNOSIS IN INDUSTRIAL DERMATITIS
Author(s) -
BURROWS D.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1972.tb16189.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , hand dermatitis , contact dermatitis , dermatology , population , irritant contact dermatitis , environmental health , allergy , immunology , physics , optics
Summary.— One hundred and thirteen patients with industrial dermatitis were reviewed 10–13 years later. Seventy‐nine per cent still required treatment from time to time. Cement dermatitis had a significant worse prognosis than oil dermatitis. Only 8 of cases of cement dermatitis were clear. In a review of cases for which industrial injuries benefit is paid in Northern Ireland there were about 150 successful claims for contact dermatitis per year this being about 1 of all industrial injuries occurring in a working population of 500,000. The incidence of dermatitis diminishes with age, but the risk has been reduced by only about 50 in the older age group 55–64 compared with the younger age group 25–34.