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A silver tattoo of the nasal mucosa after silver nitrate cautery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Frederick Mayall  and
David Wild
Frederick Mayall*
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Waikato Hospital, The Meat Research Institute, Hamilton, New Zealand.
David Wild
Affiliation:
The Waikato Microscopy Unit, The Meat Research Institute, Hamilton, New Zealand.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr F. G. Mayall, Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand. Fax: 07 839 8759
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Abstract

We report a silver tattoo of the nasal mucosa that occurred after silver nitrate cautery for nasal bleeding. Ths type of tattoo is a very rare potential mimic of melanoma and appears not to have been described before. It has similar features to an amalgam tattoo of the oral mucosa on histology and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX).

Keywords

NoseTurbinatesSilver nitrateCautery
Type
Pathology in Focus
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 110 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 609 - 610
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1996

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References

Mayall, F. G., Hickman, J., Knight, L., Singhrao, S. (1992) An amalgam tattoo of the soft palate: a case report with energy dispersive X-ray analysis. Journal of Laryngology and Otology 106: 834–835.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed