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- Title
Hızma ile İlişkili Piyojenik Granülom Benzeri Burun Papülü.
- Authors
Polat, Mualla; Kaya, Hatice; Parlak, Ali Haydar
- Abstract
The application of body piercing is popular among young people, who consider it as a sign of marginality, beauty, or group identity. Piercing procedure is observed to cause a large number of complications such as infections, pain, inflammatory reactions, bleeding, dental fractures or fissures, and gingival damage, etc., mostly in young individuals. Hizma is a traditional body ornament worn by Anatolian women via a piercing procedure. Herein, we describe a papule of nose mimicking pyogenic granuloma as an uncommon complication of Hızma.
- Subjects
BODY piercing; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; GRANULOMA; HEMANGIOMAS; NOSE
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Dermatology / Turk Dermatoloji Dergisis, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 3, p161
- ISSN
1307-7635
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4274/tdd.1346