TY - JOUR T1 - Patch tests and hand eczema: retrospective study in 173 patients and literature review JO - Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia T2 - AU - Suzuki,Nathalie Mie AU - Hafner,Mariana de Figueiredo Silva AU - Lazzarini,Rosana AU - Duarte,Ida Alzira Gomes AU - Veasey,John Verrinder SN - 03650596 M3 - 10.1016/j.abd.2022.02.007 DO - 10.1016/j.abd.2022.02.007 UR - http://www.anaisdedermatologia.org.br/en-patch-tests-hand-eczema-retrospective-articulo-S0365059623000156 AB - BackgroundHand eczema (HE) is a highly prevalent, recurrent, and multifactorial disease. It encompasses a group of eczematous diseases that affect the hands, etiologically classified into irritant contact dermatitis (ICD), allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) and atopic dermatitis (AD). Few epidemiological studies in Latin America have investigated the characteristics of patients with this condition and the origin of the disease. ObjectivesTo analyze the profile of patients diagnosed with HE submitted to patch tests aiming to determine its etiology. MethodsA retrospective descriptive study was carried out on epidemiological data and patch tests of patients with HE treated at a tertiary hospital in the city of São Paulo from January 2013 to December 2020. ResultsA total of 173 patients were studied, whose final diagnosis was 61.8% of ICD, 23.1% of ACD and 5.2% of AD, with diagnostic overlap in 42.8% of the cases. The main positive and relevant patch tests were: Kathon CG (42%), nickel sulfate (33%), and thiuram mix (18%). Study limitationsThe number of treated cases and socioeconomic profile was limited to a vulnerable population group. ConclusionHE is a diagnosis in which overlapping etiologies are frequent, with the main sensitizers identified in ACD being Kathon CG, nickel sulfate and thiuram mix. ER -