Disease relevance of Tattooing

• It is incumbent that preventionists address behaviors such as tattooing and body piercing as possible vectors for HIV transmission in addition to typical concerns (homosexuality, i.v. drug use, condom use and safer sex practices) [1].

High impact information on Tattooing

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder, tattooing and bizarre sexual practices [2].
• Pathologic studies were performed on two specimens of eyelid that had been treated with permanent eyeliner (tattooing with ferrous oxide), one specimen excised four days after injection of the pigment, and the other obtained 12 months later [3].
• CONCLUSIONS: The most likely causative agent for the lichenoid reaction associated with use of commercial black henna for temporary tattooing, currently popular in Southeast Asia, is p-phenylenediamine [4].
• Inflammatory bowel disease after India ink tattooing: too much of a good thing [5].
• In one group, lesions were localized preoperatively by endoscopic India ink tattooing (n = 21; tattooed group, TG), while conventional methods were used in the others (n = 26; non-tattooed group, NTG) [6].

Associations of Tattooing with chemical compounds

• METHODS: A six-year-old girl underwent corneal tattooing (platinum chloride reduced by hydrazine) in the relevant scarred corneal sector [7].
• Beginning 6 hours after tattooing, A received no treatment, B was treated with petrolatum, C had imiquimod cream alternating with tretinoin gel, D had imiquimod cream alone, and E received tretinoin gel alone [8].
• The movements of thymidine tattoos during septation were demonstrated in a series of 31 embryos, 14 fixed at 2 hours, 12 at 2 days, and 5 at 4 days following tattooing; similar results were seen in uridine and leucine labeled hearts [9].
• Nipple-areola tattooing done with iron oxide and titanium dioxide pigments thus appears to be a reasonably safe and effective procedure in most patients but may require one or more subsequent touch-ups for appropriate color match [10].
• Our one-stage method of nipple-areola reconstruction uses intradermal tattooing for pigmentation and double-opposing pennant flaps for nipple reconstruction [11].

Gene context of Tattooing

• Watchmaker's pin-vise for manual tattooing of vitiligo [12].
• Cosmetic problems included pigmentation, tattooing, telengiectatic matting, and appearance of new varicose veins [13].
• Tattoos and tattooing. Part II: Gross pathology, histopathology, medical complications, and applications [14].
• Tattooing: a Nova Scotia experience [15].
• Tattooing newborn albino mice in life-span experiments [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Tattooing

• Most HCV carriers are infected by parenteral routes (intravenous drug use, blood transfusion, tattooing) [17].

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