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- Title
Occupational exogenous siderosis of the skin.
- Authors
Jirasek, L.
- Abstract
Tattooings take a special position among occupational stigmata. In some occupations, they occur regularly. Most frequently they are caused by particles of stone, coal, gunpowder or metals. They are known to occur in coal miners, so-called collier's strips, quarrymen, pyrotechnists, blasters, workers in ammunition factories and certain other occupations. Some of the foreign particles may eventually be extruded through the skin but the rest are either embedded in the skin without producing any reaction, or they are surrounded by giant cells, fibroblasts and histiocytes. Particles of silica, asbestos, zirconium, zinc and some of their compounds may even induce fibroblastic inflammation with a tuberculoid structure.
- Subjects
OCCUPATIONAL diseases; SKIN diseases; TATTOOING; FIBROBLASTS; MACROPHAGES; DERMATOLOGY
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1979, Vol 5, Issue 5, p334
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1979.tb04893.x