Pearled papules over tattoo: Molluscum cotagiosum

Pearled papules over tattoo: Molluscum cotagiosum

A 23-year-old immune-competent man attended to our dermatology unit complaining asymptomatic pearled papules over a previous black tattoo performed over his right abdominal flank. Past medical history was unremarkable. Physical examination showed several umbilicated skin-coloured papules on the tattooed skin and the surrounding skin. Serology results for syphilis, hepatitis B and C, and HIV wer...

A three-dimensional tattoo: molluscum contagiosum.

CMAJ • JUNE 15, 2010 • 182(9) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors E382 Twenty days after getting a tattoo on his arm, a 30-year-old immunocompetent man de veloped peculiar lesions at the tattoo site. He presented to our dermatology clinic three months later with umbilicated, skin-coloured, papular lesions that were asymptomatic (Figure 1A). His physical examination was otherwis...

Molluscum contagiosum on tattoo Molusco contagioso em tatuagem

Molluscum contagiosum is a disease caused by a poxvirus characterized by benign self-limited eruption of single or multiple cutaneous spherical and pearly papules. Transmission usually occurs by direct contact with infected hosts. It is reported the case of a 22-year-old Caucasian male who presented characteristic pearly and umbilicated papules strictly located on the region of a tattoo. Histop...

Unusual Manifestation of Molluscum Contagiosum: Eruptive Papules on the Face and Neck of an Immunocompetent Patient

398 Ann Dermatol Received October 17, 2012, Revised November 25, 2012, Accepted for publication November 28, 2012 Corresponding author: Sang Ho Oh, Department of Dermatology, Severance Hospital, Cutaneous Biology Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 250 Seongsanno, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2228-2080, Fax: 82-2-393-9157, E-mail: oddung93@ yuhs.ac This i...

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