[Latex allergy. Risk factors in anesthesiology].
Epidemiological studies show an increasing frequency of the responsibility of latex in allergy accidents during operations (1). The frequency of the responsibility of latex in the anaesthetic medium develops moreover in parallel with the frequency of latex allergy generally (in the professional and non-professional fields).
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Laboratoire d'Immuno-Allergologie-CHU, Angers.
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