Proposed ICDRG Classification of the Clinical Presentation of Contact Allergy

Korbkarn Pongpairoj1, Iris Ale, Klaus Ejner Andersen

  • 1From the *Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand; †Allergy Center and Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Republic University of Uruguay, Montevideo; ‡Department of Dermatology and Allergy Center, Center for Innovative Medical Technology, Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense; §Department of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; ∥Department of Social Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, University of Heidelberg, Germany; ¶Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Jena, Germany; #Department of Dermatology, National Skin Centre, Singapore; **Contact Allergy Unit, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital KU Leuven, Belgium; ††MGM Medical College, Kamothe, Mumbai, India; ‡‡Department of Dermatology, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; §§Department of Dermatology, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul; ∥∥Department of Dermatology, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA; ¶¶Department of Dermatology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan; ##Occupational Dermatology Research and Education Centre, Skin and Cancer Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ***Institute of Dermatology, Bangkok, Thailand; †††Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada; ‡‡‡Dermatologic Department, Division of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand; and §§§Department of Cutaneous Allergy, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

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