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What does your tattoo say about you?
Psychiatrists have long been interested in understanding the relevance of the tattooed body in a clinical or forensic evaluation and in settling on interpretive models that hold reliable value.

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Scarless surgery has been an elusive goal in plastic surgery, but for a subset of patients breast reconstruction without visible scars is possible.

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This article looks at how tattoo pigment looks to be ejected from the skin at high enough speed to embed it in glass slides during tattoo laser tattoo removal.

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The shocking pictures from these two cases of complications from eyeball tattooing should be enough to put even the most die hard tattoo fan off from having this procedure.

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This ground breaking study into Macrophages determined the identity, origin, and dynamics of the skin myeloid cells that capture and retain tattoo pigment particles. We showed that they are exclusively made of dermal macrophages. Using the possibility to delete them, we further demonstrated that tattoo pigment particles can undergo successive cycles of capture–release–recapture without any tattoo vanishing.

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Examine the care of an "AC Milan" tattoo that developed first localized and then general sarcoidal type reaction resulting in surgical removal of the tattoo and surrounding skin.

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What make a Sexy looking brow? The author of this article surveyed people to determine just what make a brow sexy.

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Could this be a new treatment for granulomatous reaction to red tattoo pigment. Allopurinol emerges as an important drug for the management of granulomatous reactions caused by tattoo pigments, based on the significant clinical improvement noticed during its use.

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The medical literature contains a number patient case reports of inflammatory conditions and their temporal relationship with tattooing, in this particular case the reporting medical practitioners describe a case of Uveitis (inflammation of the middle layer of the eye wall the Uvea), these case reports provide important empirical evidence that is used by the medical profession to determine if certain types of chemicals in tattoo pigments pose a higher risk of triggering adverse health effects or if the individual cases are coincidental. Industry members should look upon these reports as contributing to the longer term safety of pigment manufacturing and client safety and by being aware of the types of health issues that are raising concerns by the treating doctors industry members are able to refer clients expeditiously if similar signs or symptoms after tattooing.

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In this report the authors take an alternative approach to tattoo pigment analysis and uncover some undisclosed ingredients within tattoo inks and PMU pigments that are available in the market place.

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