%0 Journal Article
%T Using Patch Testing to Improve Therapeutic Outcome in the Treatment of Hand Eczema in Vietnamese Patients
%A Aleksandra Vojvodic
%A Claudio Feliciani
%A Doanh Le Huu
%A Francesca Satolli
%A Giang Quach Thi Ha
%A Khang Tran Hau
%A Mai Le Thi
%A Marco Gandolfi
%A Michael Tirant
%A My Le Huyen
%A Nghi Dinh Huu
%A Phuong Pham Thi Minh
%A Sau Nguyen Huu
%A Thuong Nguyen Van
%A Torello Lotti
%A Trang Trinh Minh
%A Tung Vu Thanh
%A Van Tran Cam
%J Archive of "Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2019
%R 10.3889/oamjms.2019.051
%X Hand eczema is a common chronic and relapsing skin disease with various clinical features. Hand eczema aetiology can be allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), irritant contact dermatitis (ICD), atopic dermatitis (AD) and unknown or combination causes. If the causative agents are not detected treatment of hand eczema will be a failure. A patch test can be useful to detect causative agents in suspected allergic contact hand eczema. Then patients will avoid contacting them. This results in the improvement of hand eczema. In Vietnam, patch test has not been used before, so we conduct this study
%K Hand eczema
%K Allergic contact dermatitis
%K Atopic dermatitis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364736/