Abstract
Various issues remain unresolved in atopic dermatitis, such as its etiology, treatments and en-vironmental factors, etc. In this synposium, these issues were discussed from the clinical aspects: the clinical trial aiming at the elimination of environmental antigens, the possible association between waxing of the disease and patient's anxiety about the treatments due to insufficient explana-tion, the importance of sufficient explanation to make patients understand both the nature of the disease and the treatments including a skin care and to relieve patients from the stress, the efficacy of corticosteroid ointment treatment appropriately directed by dermatologist, and atopic dermatitis associated Kaposi's varicelliform eruption.
