{"title":"Agave contact dermatitis.","authors":"Whitney A High","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Agave americanais a low-growing thick-leaved subtropical plant used largely for ornamental purposes in the southwestern United States. The sap within the plant leaves contains calcium oxalate crystals, acrid oils, saponins, and other compounds. Despite widespread use and exposure to these irritants,","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"1849 1","pages":"213-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00007","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 19
Abstract
Agave americanais a low-growing thick-leaved subtropical plant used largely for ornamental purposes in the southwestern United States. The sap within the plant leaves contains calcium oxalate crystals, acrid oils, saponins, and other compounds. Despite widespread use and exposure to these irritants,