Body Art: Piercing, Tattooing, and Scarification

Adolescent Medicine Clinics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 505-519

  Braverman, Paula K ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MODIFICATION; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TATTOOING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MODIFICATION, NON-THERAPEUTIC; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SAFETY; TATTOOING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749417017     PISSN: 15473368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.admecli.2006.06.007     Document Type: Review

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