Tattooing is an ancient art widely practiced allover the world. The procedure used in making a tattoo consists of puncturing the dermis and depositing an amount of ink, but this decorative technique is not devoid of potential adverse effects, such as infectious complications, hypersensitivity reactions to pigments (lichenoid and granulomatous reactions), the development of benign or malignant t...

Introduction. Tattoos have increasingly become accepted by mainstream Western society. As a result, the incidence of tattoo-associated dermatoses is on the rise. The presence of a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma in an old tattooed skin is of interest as it has not been previously documented. Case Presentation. A 79-year-old white homeless man of European descent presented to the d...

Pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR) enables noninvasive determination of temperature depth profiles induced in strongly scattering biological tissues and organs, including human skin, by pulsed laser irradiation. In the present study, we evaluate the potential of this technique for objective characterization of a laser tattoo removal procedure. The study involved 5 healthy volunteers (age 20–...

Dear Editor, Case Report A 5-year-old, previously healthy French Caucasian boy was seen at a Paediatric Emergency Department for a skin rash over his left forearm. The child had a temporary “black scorpion” tattoo painted on his left forearm while in Singapore. The temporary tattoo disappeared after a few days. However a week later, the parents noted that the skin erupted in an erythematous pap...

Tattoos cause a broad range of clinical problems. Mild complaints, especially sensitivity to sun, are very common and seen in 1/5 of cases. Medical complications are dominated by allergy to tattoo pigment haptens or haptens generated in the skin, especially in red tattoos but also in blue and green tattoos. Symptoms are major and can be compared to cumbersome pruritic skin diseases. Tattoo alle...

Cosmetic tattooing has become a risk factor for several adverse reactions related to inks, procedures, and associated clinical conditions. Development of a sarcoid reaction to the inserted tattoo pigment in the skin is not common. We report a 45 year-old patient with history of dyspnea and mild cough since two years who had subsequently developed reddish, scaly lesions in her 15-year old tattoo...

A 35-year-old man came to the clinic after noticing changes in a pigmented lesion on his right arm, where he had had a tattoo some 2 years previously. When the tattoo was placed, the tattooist avoided a pre-existing nevus, although during recent months this had grown until it reached the tattoo and came to the patient’s attention (Fig. 1 A and B). Clinical suspicion led us to remove the lesion....

To understand the role that tattooists play in providing skin care advice, we conducted an online, survey-based study of 90 licensed tattooists in New York City. The survey asked tattooists about their exposure to adverse tattoo events, advising on tattoo removal/correction, behaviors regarding preexisting skin conditions and aftercare, confidence in addressing client questions about adverse ev...

Fig 1. Monsel tattoo at baseline before treatment (A), after 2 cryotherapy sessions (B), and 1 month after the fourth cryotherapy session (C). INTRODUCTION Monsel solution is a commonly used hemostatic agent comprised of ferric subsulfate. Rarely, Monsel solution causes a tattoo reaction secondary to iron particle deposition in the dermis. We present a case of Monsel solution tattoo successfull...