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Lichenoid Delayed Hypersensitivity Reactions in Tattoos
Author(s) -
WINKELMANN R. K.,
HARRIS RUSSELL B.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of cutaneous pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1600-0560
pISSN - 0303-6987
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1979.tb00306.x
Subject(s) - delayed hypersensitivity , medicine , dermatology , hypersensitivity reaction , pathology , immunology , antigen
Two patients with an inflammatory reaction in a red tattoo had histopathologic changes of lichen planus. The lesions demonstrated a lymphocytic bandlike infiltrate, liquefaction degeneration, acanthosis, hypergranulosis, and orthokeratosis and many hyaline bodies. Metal particles were observed in the region of the dermal‐epidermal reaction. This probably is another example of the lichenoid reaction produced by delayed cellular hypersensitivity.