...Yolanka Lobo; Karyn Lun There have been increasing reports of tattoo-associated mycobacterial infections in recent years, with a number of outbreaks documented worldwide. This has therefore become a public health concern. Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are capable of producing skin and soft...

...Fouad Mitri; Wolfgang Hartschuh; Ferdinand Toberer We report on a 39-year-old man who presented with seven skin lesions on the right thigh 3 weeks after receiving a large tattoo which included red and black pigments. Initially, the lesions grew fast, later their growth stabilized. Histopathology...

..., pruritus and xerosis as well as granulomatous reactions. A 30-year-old patient with multiple tattoos received dabrafenib and trametinib for metastatic melanoma. After 4 months, he developed an induration and thickening strictly limited to several tattoos. Histopathology revealed nonnecrotizing granulomas...

...Candace Broussard-Steinberg; Alexander Zemtsov; Matthew Strausburg; Gregory Zemtsov; Simon Warren Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia is a benign histologic reaction pattern that in rare cases can occur shortly after a tattooing procedure. We describe a case of pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia...