Lichenoid Delayed Hypersensitivity Reactions in Tattoos
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1600-0560
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Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
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Medicine
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Two patients with an inflammatory reaction in a red tattoo had histopathologic changes of lichen planus. The lesions demonstrated a lymphocytic bandlike infiltrate, liquefaction degeneration, acanthosis, hypergranulosis, and orthokeratosis and many hyaline bodies. Metal particles were observed in the region of the dermal-epidermal reaction. This probably is another example of the lichenoid reaction produced by delayed cellular hypersensitivity.
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Electronic Resource
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