Lymphovascular Abnormalities Under Tattoos

Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tattoo

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: near infra red fluorescence lymphatic imaging

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05515146

HE2BHERSICGTT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The number of tattooed people is increasing and some complications secondary to tattoos suggest that the lymphatic vascular system might be implicated in their pathogenesis. Abnormalities have been described at the level of the lymph nodes draining the tattooed areas but nothing was reported about the lymphatic vessels under tattoos. This is the aim of the present work.

Full description

19 subjects with 20 tattooed skin surfaces were enrolled after written informed consent and the lymphvascular drainage under the tattooed surface was studied using one near infrared camera device after one intradermal injection of Indocyanine Green.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• presence of one tattoo at the level of one limb
• written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. History of iodine allergy or anaphylactic reactions to insect bites or medication;
2. Hyperthyroidism;
3. Severe cardiac or pulmonary disease;
4. Significant renal failure (creatinine > 400 μmol/l);
5. Pregnancy;
6. any known disease of the skin (such as psoriasis);
7. any disease known to affect the cutaneous tissues (such as diabetes);
8. any previous operation and/or trauma at the level of tattooed limb;
9. familial history of lower limb edemas:
10. skin infection after the tattoo