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Skin occlusion: treatment or drug-like device?
1Department of Dermatology, University of California Medical School, San Francisco.
Skin Pharmacology : the Official Journal of the Skin Pharmacology Society
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The effects of occlusion on skin function are described and reviewed. Occlusion seems to be not only a device applied on the skin surface, but, under certain conditions, a powerful treatment capable of inducing several changes on epidermal metabolism, skin flora, sweat glands and epidermal morphology.