A medical-toxicological view of tattooing.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  The Lancet

• Publication date

  2016-01-23

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60215-XPMID 26211826
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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