| Literature DB >> 23929611 |
Admire Matsika1, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Janet Meryl Gray, Christine Ruth Galbraith.
Abstract
A tattoo is defined as the intentional or accidental deposit of pigment into the skin. The phenomenon of skin tattooing is on the rise worldwide and complications of tattooing are increasingly being recognised in diagnostic and clinical medicine. We describe a case of calcification-like changes on mammography resembling that of breast malignancy as a result of tattoo pigment deposition in an axillary lymph node. Recognition of such changes in routine breast screening is crucial to avoid further unnecessary invasive investigations and surgery in such patients.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23929611 PMCID： PMC3762361 DOI： 10.1136/bcr-2013-200284
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN： 1757-790X