ABSTRACT
General aspects of corticosteroids used on the skin and mucous membranes. From January 1990 to June 2008, in Leuven, Belgium, 315 patients were diagnosed with contact allergy to/allergic contact dermatitis from corticosteroids (CSs) from routine patch testing with a baseline series including tixocortol pivalate, budesonide, hydrocortisone butyrate and prednisone caproate, patch testing with patients’ own CSs preparations, and testing those with proven contact allergy to a corticosteroid or strongly suspected of CS allergy later with a series of 66 CSs, including two sex hormones. In this group of 315 CS allergic patients, 67 had positive patch tests to cortisone acetate 0.5% alc./DMSO.
