Sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value of patch testing: the more you test, the more you get? ESCD Working Party on Epidemiology.

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Published in Contact Dermatitis on June 01, 2000

Authors

T L Diepgen1, P J Coenraads

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Medicine, Center of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Hiedelberg, Germany.

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