Carbon stain

Carbon stains are a skin condition characterized by a discoloration of the skin from embedded carbon, usually occurring in children from careless use of firearms or firecrackers, or from puncture wound by a pencil, which may leave a permanent black mark of embedded graphite, easily mistaken for metastatic melanoma.[1]:47

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References

  1. ^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.