Tattoos and Piercings: A Review for the Emergency Physician

Tattoos and piercings are increasingly part of everyday life for large sections of the population, and more emergency physicians are seeing these body modifications (BM) adorn their patients. In this review we elucidate the most common forms of these BMs, we describe how they may affect both the phy...

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Autores principales: Urdang, Michael, Mallek, Jennifer T, Mallon, William K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011
Materias:
Clinical Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224126
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.2268
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description Tattoos and piercings are increasingly part of everyday life for large sections of the population, and more emergency physicians are seeing these body modifications (BM) adorn their patients. In this review we elucidate the most common forms of these BMs, we describe how they may affect both the physical and psychological health of the patient undergoing treatment, and also try to educate around any potential pitfalls in treating associated complications.
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spelling pubmed-32361782012-01-05 Tattoos and Piercings: A Review for the Emergency Physician Urdang, Michael Mallek, Jennifer T Mallon, William K West J Emerg Med Clinical Practice Tattoos and piercings are increasingly part of everyday life for large sections of the population, and more emergency physicians are seeing these body modifications (BM) adorn their patients. In this review we elucidate the most common forms of these BMs, we describe how they may affect both the physical and psychological health of the patient undergoing treatment, and also try to educate around any potential pitfalls in treating associated complications. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3236178/ /pubmed/22224126 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.2268 Text en the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236178/
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