Mastitis Due toMycobacterium abscessusafter Body Piercing

Complications of body piercing.

The trend of body piercing at sites other than the earlobe has grown in popularity in the past decade. The tongue, lips, nose, eyebrows, nipples, navel, and genitals may be pierced. Complications of body piercing include local and systemic infections, poor cosmesis, and foreign body rejection. Swelling and tooth fracture are common problems after tongue piercing. Minor infections, allergic cont...

Body piercing and tattooing perspectives.

This descriptive, correlational study surveyed 79 pierced and/or tattooed participants to determine reasons why people pierce and tattoo their bodies and to assess participants' knowledge of health risks involved in body alteration procedures. Participants queried represented a wide age range-between 19 and 55. Results showed that participants perceived few health risks involving piercing and t...

JAMA patient page. Body piercing.

Infectious complications of body piercing.

Body piercing appears to be gaining in popularity and social acceptance. With the increase in the number of piercings, it is likely that health care providers may see an increase in the complications resulting from these piercings. These may include the transmission of hepatitis viruses and bacteria at the time of the piercing or in the course of wound care. We review the infectious complicatio...

Aortic pseudoaneurysm due to piercing ring injury.

A 43-year old man presented with chest pain and fever. He had inadvertently inhaled a nasal piercing which caused injury to the descending aorta through the left bronchus. The resulting pseu-doaneurysm was treated with endovascular stenting after left carotido-subclavian bypass (Figs 1 and 2). The patient died 2 years later due to drug overdose. Figure 1: CT scan showing the false aneurysm (ast...