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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

body piercing

Body Site

tongue

Age

17 years

Pigmentation

dark

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This 17 year old girl demonstrates her tattoos and body piercings. Although the tattoos were placed 6 months earlier, she had palpable borders over many of them. It was unclear whether this represented a scar/keloid evolving in the tattoos or a delayed hypersensitivity reaction.

Description

multiple tattoos and body piercing, tongue piercing

Categories

Iatrogenic disorders, child abuse,

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10/3/2002 21:38:15

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PubMed Medline Plus Medscape

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