Amalgam-tattoo-associated oral lichenoid lesion

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 240-241

  Staines, K S ^a   Wray, D ^a  

^a GLASGOW DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amalgam; Lichenoid; Oral; Tattoo

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DENTIST; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LICHENOID; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOUTH MUCOSA; STOMATOLOGY; TATTOO;

DENTAL AMALGAM; FEMALE; GINGIVAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33847608828     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.00915.x     Document Type: Article

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