Tattoo complaints and complications: Diagnosis and clinical spectrum

Current Problems in Dermatology (Switzerland)

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-60

  Serup, Jørgen ^a   Hutton Carlsen, Katrina ^a   Sepehri, Mitra ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; PAPULAR SKIN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN SCAR; SKIN ULCER; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TATTOO; TATTOOING; CICATRIX; COLOR; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; URTICARIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

COLORING AGENT;

CICATRIX; COLOR; COLORING AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TATTOOING; URTICARIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84926285458     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: 16622944     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000369645     Document Type: Article

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