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Background: Excited skin syndrome (ESS) occurs when, after a battery of patch tests is applied to patients with suspect allergic contact dermatitis, an excessive number of positive patch tests is obtained that are no longer reproduced when the patient is retested.Objective: This study was performed to verify the occurence of ESS when patch tests were applied to a population with a hypothetical diagnosis...