Do tattoos impair sweating?

Do Perfluoroalkyl Compounds Impair Human Semen Quality?

BACKGROUND Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are found globally in wildlife and humans and are suspected to act as endocrine disruptors. There are no previous reports of PFAA levels in adult men from Denmark or of a possible association between semen quality and PFAA exposure. OBJECTIVES We investigated possible associations between PFAAs and testicular function. We hypothesized that higher PFAA l...

"Choump" enamel tattoos.

Identification of both living and deceased individuals may be made by recognition of physical characteristics or comparison with data from medical or dental records. Data with low frequency of occurrence are prised by identification specialists. Two cases are presented of highly individual enamel tattoos.

Surgical Management of Tattoos

Objective: To study patients coming for surgical removal of their tattoos with regard to treatment outcome. Methodology: It is a descriptive and observational study, conducted at Plastic, Reconstructive & Micro-Surgery Department of Dow Medical College & Civil Hospital, Karachi over a period of one year. Twenty four patient, 18 males and 6 females, who came for tattoo removal and were found to ...

A new purpose for tattoos: medical alert tattoos.

Tattooing has gained a tremendous popularity for the past twenty years. The motivations that drive an individual to acquire a tattoo are plentiful. Tattooing has also found its way in the field of medicine (corneal tattooing, gastrointestinal tattooing during endoscopy, permanent make-up tattooing, scar camouflage or radiotherapy field marking...). An emerging application of tattooing is for th...

Superior colliculus lesions do not impair orientation to pattern.