title: The treatment of tattoos with trichloracetic acid: experience with 670 patients.
abstract: A review of out-patient treatment of tattoos with trichloracetic acid has been undertaken. Six hundred and seventy patients have been treated during the 6-year period between 1979 and 1984. The simple and inexpensive technique is described and the results presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Piggot
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Norris
mesh_terms: D002615:Chemexfoliation; D006801:Humans; D013653:Tattooing; D014238:Trichloroacetic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014238:Trichloroacetic Acid