Skin Occlusion: Treatment or Drug-Like Device?
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Skin Pharmacology and Physiology
- Vol. 1 (3) , 207-215
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000210775
Abstract
The effects of occlusion on skin function are described and reviewed. Occlusion seems to be not only a device applied on the skin surface, but, under certain conditions, a powerful treatment capable of inducing several changes on epidermal metabolism, skin flora, sweat glands and epidermal morphology.Keywords
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