Contact dermatitis
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Contact Derm.
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A 43-year-old woman suffered from recurrent localized swellings and an eczematous dermatitis starting 1 day after an injection of lidocaine. Intradermal patch and lymphocyte transformation tests revealed sensitization to lidocaine and cross-reactivity to the other aminoacylamide local anesthetics bupivacaine, mepivacaine and prilocaine, but not to articane. Contact allergy to the ester local anesthetics benzocaine, procaine and tetracaine, the quinoline or aminoacylamide cinchocaine, and the preservatives methylparaben and metabisulfite, was excluded. A subcutaneous challenge with articaine was well tolerated.