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Barber's hair sinus in a female hairdresser: uncommon manifestation of an occupational dermatosis
Author(s) -
Schröder CM,
Merk HF,
Frank J
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01400.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatology , hand eczema , sinus (botany) , occupational disease , pathology , contact dermatitis , allergy , botany , immunology , biology , genus
Hairdressers are prone to developing occupational skin diseases, particularly hand eczema of different origins. Rather uncommon, however, is the so‐called barber's hair sinus that is caused by hair fragments penetrating the skin preferably in the interdigital spaces of their hands. Whereas, to date, the disease has almost exclusively been reported to occur on the hands of male hairdressers, we herein present the first case of a female hairdresser who developed a barber's hair sinus on one of her feet.