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ArticleAnnales de dermatologie et de venereologie2021

Is it safe to vaccinate within a tattoo?

N Kluger

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In one paragraph

Article in Annales de dermatologie et de venereologie, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Tattooing and immune response: A mouse model too far from clinical reality.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  2. Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

N KlugerDepartment of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Meilahdentie 2, 00029 Helsinki, Finland; "Tattoo" consultation, Department of dermatology, Bichat-Claude-Bernard Hospital, 46, rue Henri-Huchard, 75018 Paris, France. Electronic address: nicolas.kluger@hus.fi.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

TattooingHumansVaccinationCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2TattooingTattoosVaccination

Identifiers

PMID34218936
PMCPMC8248893

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