Cutaneous adverse reactions to tattoos and piercings;Reacciones cutáneas adversas por tatuajes y piercings

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 643-656

  Mataix, J ^a   Silvestre, J F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cutaneous adverse reactions; Implanting; Piercing; Pocketing; Scarification; Tattoo

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ART; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BENIGN TUMOR; BLEEDING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ECCHYMOSIS; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; GRANULOMATOUS SKIN DISEASE; HALITOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFLAMMATION; LEPROSY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTITIS; MYCOSIS; NEODYMIUM LASER; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TATTOO; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TUBERCULOSIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

BODY PIERCING; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES; TATTOOING;

EID: 70350752276     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1578-2190(09)70146-5     Document Type: Review

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