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Forearm demonstrating numerous blue-black macules
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Fig1
A 57-year-old white male patient who has worked in a tire manufacturing plant for 37 years and retired 6 years prior, presented with asymptomatic dermally-implanted rubber in the bilateral hands, forearms and upper arms (Fig. 1).
Coalescent hyperpigmentation of the distal fingertip due to traumatic rubber tattoos
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Fig2
The dermally implanted rubber is most pronounced on his left index finger, which is darkly discolored (Fig. 2).