NCT05515146

Lymphovascular Abnormalities Under Tattoos

Lymphovascular Abnormalities Under Tattoos : Preliminary Reports of One Observational Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The number of tattooed people is increasing and some complications secondary to tattoos suggest that the lymphatic vascular system might be implicated in their pathogenesis. Abnormalities have been described at the level of the lymph nodes draining the tattooed areas but nothing was reported about the lymphatic vessels under tattoos. This is the aim of the present work.

Detailed description

19 subjects with 20 tattooed skin surfaces were enrolled after written informed consent and the lymphvascular drainage under the tattooed surface was studied using one near infrared camera device after one intradermal injection of Indocyanine Green.

Conditions

• Tattoo

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	near infra red fluorescence lymphatic imaging	ICG (0.2 ml from 25mg of ICG diluted by 5.0 ml of aqua ad injectabilia) was injected intradermally at the basis of the tattooed cutaneous area and at one point chosen so that the tracer had to flow under this area directly towards the root of the limb

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-31
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2022-08-25
• Last updated: 2022-08-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium