Severe Scratcher-Reaction: An Unknown Health Hazard?

Tattoos are well known to cause skin problems and the number of reported adverse reactions after tattooing has increased. Illegally imported tattoo ink is unrestrained and can contain unknown ingredients and contamination thereby posing a serious health hazard. We present a case illustrating the ris...

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Autores principales: Mikkelsen, Carsten Sauer, Holmgren, Helene Ringe, Arvesen, Kristian Bakke, Jarjis, Reem Dina, Gunnarsson, Gudjon Leifur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25918618
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2015.5816
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Jarjis, Reem Dina
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description Tattoos are well known to cause skin problems and the number of reported adverse reactions after tattooing has increased. Illegally imported tattoo ink is unrestrained and can contain unknown ingredients and contamination thereby posing a serious health hazard. We present a case illustrating the risk of pronounced phototoxic allergic reaction and other severe complications after using home kit tattoo ink.
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spelling pubmed-43873332015-04-27 Severe Scratcher-Reaction: An Unknown Health Hazard? Mikkelsen, Carsten Sauer Holmgren, Helene Ringe Arvesen, Kristian Bakke Jarjis, Reem Dina Gunnarsson, Gudjon Leifur Dermatol Reports Case Report Tattoos are well known to cause skin problems and the number of reported adverse reactions after tattooing has increased. Illegally imported tattoo ink is unrestrained and can contain unknown ingredients and contamination thereby posing a serious health hazard. We present a case illustrating the risk of pronounced phototoxic allergic reaction and other severe complications after using home kit tattoo ink. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2015-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4387333/ /pubmed/25918618 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2015.5816 Text en ©Copyright C.S. Mikkelsen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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