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. 2007 Feb 13;176(4):445-6.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.061109.

Allergic contact dermatitis to paraphenylendiamine in hair dye after sensitization from black henna tattoos: a report of 6 cases

Fara Redlick  1 , Joel DeKoven
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Allergic contact dermatitis to paraphenylendiamine in hair dye after sensitization from black henna tattoos: a report of 6 cases

Fara Redlick et al. CMAJ. .
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Fig. 1: A tattoo artist painting a black henna tattoo on a guest at a holiday resort.
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Fig. 2: Another example of allergic contact dermatitis to a black henna tattoo. The pruritic, eczematous eruption on the left arm, which began 6 days after the tattoo was applied, followed the exact outline of the original tattoo. (Inset: The original black henna tattoo.)
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