Document Type

Article

Publication Title

SKIN: Journal of Cutaneous Medicine

Abstract

Nontuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria rarely cause skin and soft tissue infections. Tattooing with contaminated gray ink has been implicated in previously reported outbreaks. We report the case of a 39-year-old Hispanic man who presented with a refractory, pruritic, papular eruption within the distribution of his tattoo with punch biopsy demonstrating papillary dermal granulomatous and suppurative inflammation surrounding small collections of acid-fast bacilli with associated superficial and deep dermal perivascular lymphatic inflammation consistent with nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. Although uncommon, clinicians should consider nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in the differential diagnosis of refractory tattooassociated skin eruptions.

DOI

10.25251/skin.4.4.20

Publication Date

7-12-2020

Keywords

atypical mycobacterial, cutaneous infection, Mycobacterium chelonae, Nontuberculous mycobacteria, tattoo infection

ISSN

2574-1624

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