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Tattoo-Associated Basal Cell Carcinoma: Coincident or Coincidence.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Challenges of dermoscopic assessment of basal cell carcinoma on tattooed skin.JAAD case reports · 2026Article
- Tattoo Ink Exposure and Its Potential Link with Lymphoma and Skin Cancer: A Narrative Review of New Evidence.Cardiovascular & hematological disorders drug targets · 2026Review
- Skin cancers arising within tattoos: A systematic review.JAAD international · 2024Review
- Epidural analgesia and tattoos: a modified technique to minimise risks and improve safety.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
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- Tattoo-Associated Viral Infections: A Review.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2021Review
- Tattoos: risks and complications, clinical and histopathological approach.Anais brasileiros de dermatologiaReview
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
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.
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