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Challenge test battery in chronic urticaria
Author(s) -
WARIN ROBERT P.,
SMITH RUTH J.
Publication year - 1976
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.1365-2133.1976.tb06117.x
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic urticaria , ingestion , battery (electricity) , test (biology) , chronic disease , dermatology , intensive care medicine , biology , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
SUMMARY The use of a battery of challenge tests in the routine investigation of patients with chronic urticaria has an important place, demonstrating an exacerbating factor in over half the patients. Diets designed to reduce the ingestion of the substances concerned are associated with clearing or considerable improvement in 75% of the patients treated.