Amalgam tattoo

(A) Amalgam tattoo presenting as a pigmented lesion on the ventral surface of the tongue in a 65-year-old woman.
(B) Dermoscopy shows an asymmetric, whitish center with a blue-gray periphery.

With kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media: Blum A. [Pigmented lesion at base of tongue: Mucosal melanoma or amalgam tattoo?] Hautarzt 2014; 65:349. Figure 3 and Figure 4. Copyright © 2014 Springer-Verlag.

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