Dermatography (Medical Tattooing) for Scars and Skin Grafts in Head and Neck Patients to Improve Appearance and Quality of Life.

Importance: Dermatography (medical tattooing) is often overlooked as an adjuvant procedure to improve color mismatch in the head and neck area, and its effect on patient satisfaction and quality of life has not been evaluated, to our knowledge.

Objective: To analyze the effect of dermatography on the subjective perception of the appearance of scars and skin grafts and the quality of life in head and neck patients.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Case series of patients undergoing dermatography at the Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, between July 1, 2007, and April 1, 2015.

[Diagnostic image (229). A neonate with a sublingual swelling].

A male neonate presented with a right-sided swelling in the floor of the mouth, a congenital ranula, which disappeared spontaneously.

Dermatography as a treatment after periocular surgery.

Dermatography is the application of tattooing techniques in medicine. In the past, several techniques have been tried but none of these led to reproducible results. Over the last 17 years, dermatography has been developed into a technique that is both generally applicable and reproducible.

[Keratography (corneal tattooing) in corneal leukoma].

Background: Since antiquity attempts have been made to minimize disfigurement and stigmatization of patients with leukoma. Keratography is a relatively new method for imprinting color pigments into the corneal stroma with an entomological needle.

Materials And Methods: Keratography was performed in 20 patients at the University Eye Hospital, Munich, between November 1997 and September 1999.