BACKGROUNDS Tattooing is an atavist and diffuse phenomenon of interest to various areas of knowledge. Its practice by specific groups such as prisoners and psychiatric patients has turned it into a stigma. OBJECTIVES To investigate the discourse of tattooed individuals about the discrimination and the construction of stigmas resulting from marks in the body. METHODS 42 individuals were inte...

The authors present the case of a professional football player with an immediate and sustained cutaneous reaction ("burn") at the site of lower extremity tattoos that occurred during magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis. The burn was attributed to an electromagnetic reaction due to the ferromagnetic metallic compounds found in tattoo pigments, especially iron oxide-a reaction that has the p...

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.

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 ...

European society has been described more than once as poor in shared rites of passage. The manipulation skin seems to be an increasingly popular solution fulfil perceived cultural gaps. Can contemporary tattoos interpreted tools commemorating life events, especially the occasion births and deaths? This article analyses meanings associated with collected during two ethnographies central Italy. B...

Tattoos are not mentioned as a source of exposure to nickel. Traces nickel are, however, almost inevitably found in tattoo inks impurities and sometimes tattooed skin. Whether tattoos has any health consequence is debated. We performed narrative review what currently known about this topic. Today, frequently detected inks, but at highly variable levels. It appears be higher concentrations green...

There are several displays commonly labeled as body modifications, including piercings, scarification, tattoos, cutting, etc. In this study, we were focused on one distinct form of modification, namely tattoos. The current exploratory study investigated the connection between modifications (BM) and Dark Triad personality for a sample 77 university students with BM, compared to control group non...

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...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this UK study was to evaluate interfraction reproducibility and body image score when using ultraviolet (UV) tattoos (not visible in ambient lighting) for external references during breast/chest wall radiotherapy and compare with conventional dark ink. METHODS In this non-blinded, single-centre, parallel group, randomized control trial, patients were allocated to rece...

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