Tattoo-Associated Basal Cell Carcinoma: Coincident or Coincidence
| Autor: | Antoanella Calame, Philip R Cohen, Christof Erickson, Nathan S. Uebelhoer |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
tattoo
medicine.medical_specialty lcsh:R5-920 business.industry Cancer carcinoma cell medicine.disease Dermatology Pathogenesis basal cell carcinoma Novel Insights from Clinical Practice Left scapula medicine Carcinoma General Earth and Planetary Sciences cancer Basal cell carcinoma Skin cancer business lcsh:Medicine (General) Ultraviolet radiation General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Biomedicine Hub, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 101-108 (2020) Biomed Hub |
| ISSN: | 2296-6870 |
| Popis: | Tattoos may be associated with medical complications including, albeit rarely, skin cancer. The features of a 46-year-old man who developed a basal cell carcinoma within a tattoo on his left scapula are described and the characteristics of the other 13 patients (7 men and 6 women) with tattoo-associated basal cell carcinoma are reviewed. The tumor usually occurs on the sun-exposed skin of individuals aged 60 years and older whose tattoo has often been present for 20 years or more. The pathogenesis of a basal cell carcinoma developing within a tattoo may merely be a coincidence. However, there is supporting evidence that the tattoo and the subsequent basal cell carcinoma may be coincident events whereby either tattoo injection-associated trauma or the tattoo pigments and dyes (in their native state or after ultraviolet radiation alteration) or both have a carcinogenic impact on the development of the basal cell carcinoma at that location. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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