Body piercing: where and how

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 407-411

  Waugh, Michael ^a  

^a Nuffield Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

ARGYRIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY PIERCING; CARBUNCLE; CELLULITIS; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; COLD INJURY; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DECUBITUS; EAR MALFORMATION; EDEMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; FISTULA; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMATOMA; HEPATITIS C; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERSALIVATION; IMPETIGO; KELOID; LIPOMA; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MOUTH INJURY; PATCH TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SARCOIDOSIS; SEPSIS; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN BRUISING; SKIN CYST; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INJURY; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN REDNESS; SKIN SCAR; SKIN SWELLING; SPEECH DISORDER; SYNCOPE; TOOTH INJURY; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY PIERCING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34547691013     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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