Dermatologic Complications with Body Art

Preface.- Introduction.- 1 History and epidemiology.- 2 Materials used in body art.- 3 Tattooing : procedures and techniques (CEN 435 standards for tattooists, Informed consent form,  aftercare instructions).- 4 Tattooing and scarring: complications (malignancy, MRI interactions, tattoos and sarcoidosis, histology and differential diagnosis).- 5 Piercings: techniques and complications (dermal anchors, genital piercings and complications.- 6 Cosmetic and Medical tattoos (permanent make-up, color changes after laser treatment, medical applications of tattooing as areola complex reconstruction, vitiligo; bleomycine in warts).- 7 Allergic reactions to pigments and metals (tattoo allergy with histology and identification of the colorants).- 8 Techniques and devices used for tattoo removal (explosion tattoo with laser removal results,  pico second laser, chemical tattoo removal with formaldehyde, imiquimod, ingenol mebutate).Preface.- Introduction.-  1 History and epidemiology.- 2 Materials used in body art.- 3 Tattooing : procedures and techniques (CEN 435 standards for tattooists, Informed consent form,  aftercare instructions).- 4 Tattooing and scarring: complications (malignancy, MRI interactions, tattoos and sarcoidosis, histology and differential diagnosis).- 5 Piercings: techniques and complications (dermal anchors, genital piercings and complications.- 6 Cosmetic and Medical tattoos (permanent make-up, color changes after laser treatment, medical applications of tattooing as areola complex reconstruction, vitiligo; bleomycine in warts).- 7 Allergic reactions to pigments and metals (tattoo allergy with histology and identification of the colorants).- 8 Techniques and devices used for tattoo removal (explosion tattoo with laser removal results,  pico second laser, chemical tattoo removal with formaldehyde, imiquimod, ingenol mebutate).

Dr. Christa De Cuyper is a Belgian dermatologist and has been working in the Sint-Jan General Hospital in Brugge for 35 years. She has extensive experience in laser treatment, particularly in tattoo removal. Dr. De Cuyper is a founding member of the European Society on Tattoo and Pigment Research (ESTP), organized the second congress on Tattoo and Pigment Research in Brugge, which brought together authorities and various stakeholders (scientists, manufacturers, retailers and professional users of tattoo and PMU inks), and has given invited talks on this subject at several international congresses (EADV, World congress of Dermatology , GERDA etc.). She has represented Belgium in both the CEN 435 project on hygienic standards for tattooists, and in the EC Consumer Safety Network subgroup on safety of tattoos and PMU.




Prof. Maria Luisa Pérez-Cotapos is a medical surgeon specialized in dermatology and based in Chile. She has been Head of theDermatology Department, Clinica Las Condes (Santiago, Chile) since June 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile. She acts as Director for the Universidad de Chile at Clinica Las Condes Dermatology Training Program for general practitioners, and as a consultant for the Chilean Ministry of Health's tattooing, piercing and body art rules and regulations program. She is an active member of the Ibero-American College of Dermatology and coedited the first edition of "Complications of Body art: tattoo and piercing," published by Springer.