title: A silver tattoo of the nasal mucosa after silver nitrate cautery.
abstract: We report a silver tattoo of the nasal mucosa that occurred after silver nitrate cautery for nasal bleeding. This type of tattoo is a very rare potential mimic of melanoma and appears not to have been described before. It has similar features to an amalgam tattoo of the oral mucosa on histology and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX).
authors.affiliation: Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mayall
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wild
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002425:Cautery / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D012834:Silver; D012835:Silver Nitrate / Q000009:adverse effects; D013653:Tattooing
chemical_list: D012834:Silver; D012835:Silver Nitrate