Contact dermatitis to topical acne drugs: a review of the literature

@article{Foti2015ContactDT,
  title={Contact dermatitis to topical acne drugs: a review of the literature},
  author={Caterina Foti and Paolo Romita and Alessandro Borghi and Gianni D. Angelini and Domenico Bonamonte and Monica Corazza},
  journal={Dermatologic Therapy},
  year={2015},
  volume={28}
}
Acne vulgaris is a chronic dermatological disorder that affects the majority of teenagers in the Western world. Topical therapy is widely used to treat mild‐moderate acne and is known as well‐tolerated thanks to its low systemic toxicity, although associated to skin adverse effects. Acne seems to be associated also to an intrinsic alteration of the epidermal barrier, regarding both the upper and the follicular stratum corneum that promotes the onset of such local side effects. The commonest one… 
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