Publication details
A case of contact hypersensitivity to platinum salts
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Contact Dermatitis |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Dermatovenerology |
| Keywords | platinum salts; allergic contact dermatitis;cis-platinum; cisplatin; occupational; chemical process worker; pharmaceutical manufacture; antineoplastics |
| Description | A 42-year-old worker in the manufacture of cis-platinum presented with a widespread papular eczema (potassium trichloroamine-platinate, potassium tetrachloroplatinate, oxaliplatin). The tests were positive to all 3 platinum compounds. The dermatitis was reported as occupational. |