Intensified Contact Sensitization to Benzyl Salicylate
- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 103 (5), 497-500
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1971.04000170031007
Abstract
Benzyl salicylate (BS), a weak contact sensitizer, caused severe pruritus in six of 15 patients who applied it in a trioxsalen lotion. Delayed hypersensitivity to BS was enhanced by the phototoxic effects of methoxsalen. Only one of 14 control patients reacted to the BS.Keywords
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