Tattoos: What is their significance?

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 281-287

  Khosla, Vivek ^a   Joseph, Verghese ^b   Gordon, Harvey ^a,c  

^a Littlemore Mental Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b Stamford Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ALLERGIC REACTION; BLEEDING; BULIMIA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; GRANULOMA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; KELOID; LASER SURGERY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEPTICEMIA; SEX RATIO; SKIN ABRASION; SOCIAL STRESS; SUICIDE; SWELLING; TATTOO; TATTOOING; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 77954255493     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.006205     Document Type: Review

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