Body-modifying concepts and dermatologic problems: tattooing and piercing

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-44

  Kaatz, Martin ^a   Elsner, Peter ^a   Bauer, Andrea ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COBALT; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; HENNA; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; EAR LOBE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIFE EVENT; MATERIALS TESTING; NIPPLE; NOSE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN PIERCING; SOCIAL CLASS; TATTOO; TONGUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY MODIFICATION, NON-THERAPEUTIC; BODY PIERCING; COLORING AGENTS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; INFECTION; METALS, HEAVY; SKIN DISEASES; TATTOOING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 38949182576     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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