Abstract
Our purpose was to determine the proportion of relevant patch test reactions among all patch tested patients in the National Skin Centre (NSC), Singapore, from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2000. A retrospective study was made of the patch test records of all patients patch tested in the study period. The proportion of relevant patch tests in this population was then determined. The allergens most likely to have present or past relevance were: nickel sulfate (79%), p-phenylenediamine (76%), colophonium (73%), cobalt chloride (68%) and potassium dichromate (67%). The most common allergens for each of the following relevance categories were as follows - present: p-phenylenediamine, thiuram mix, potassium dichromate; past: colophony, nickel sulfate, cobalt chloride; exposed: neomycin, gold sodium thiosulfate, fragrance mix and unknown: gold sodium thiosulfate, potassium dichromate, cobalt chloride. Evaluating relevance is difficult, and the results of relevance scoring vary widely between different groups. A consensus on the definition and standardization of the concept of relevance is needed.
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