title: Skin occlusion: treatment or drug-like device?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University of California Medical School, San Francisco.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berardesca
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Maibach
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009779:Occlusive Dressings / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012867:Skin / Q000187:drug effects; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000502:physiology; D014945:Wound Healing