Palladium chloride

Palladium a metal is found in costume jewelry, zippers, eyelets and eyeglasses frames. Palladium is also used in dental prosthetics and joint prostheses. The contact sensitization rate to palladium in a larger collective of epicutaneously tested adolescents was behind nickel (12.3% of females / 1.4% of males) with 5.2% of females and 0.5% of males in second place on the frequency list.

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