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Irritant contact dermatitis complicated by deep-seated staphylococcal infection caused by a hair relaxer
Birinder J Kaur1, Harmeet Singh, Alan Lin-Greenberg
1Department of Internal Medicine, Jersey City Medical Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NJ 07304, USA.
Journal of the National Medical Association
|February 21, 2002
Abstract:
Chemical hair relaxers are used by many women to straighten their hair. We describe a case of a deep soft tissue staphylococcal abscess that complicated an irritant contact dermatitis from a hair relaxer treatment.