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A Gunpowder Tattoo in a 6-Year-Old Girl
Seth Bernstein1, Brittany Barros2, Andrea L Zaenglein1,3
1Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Pediatric Dermatology
|April 5, 2016
Abstract:
Gunpowder tattoos result from explosion and subsequent traumatic implantation of pigmented granules into varying layers of the skin. This report details the case of a 6-year-old with a gunpowder tattoo on the face.

