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This is pretty much expected. The very mechanism of tattoos is that ink particles deposited in the skin are taken up by phagocytes. One of the jobs of phagocyte

This is pretty much expected. The very mechanism of tattoos is that ink particles deposited in the skin are taken up by phagocytes. One of the jobs of phagocytes is to present ingested material to lymphocytes in lymph nodes. Makes sense that we may see ink particles in lymph nodes.

beerlord 8y ago
This is also the method used for tattoo removal. Normally the ink particles (or most of them) are too large to be removed by the body. Tattoo removal lasers simply break down the ink pigments into smaller particles, which the body can remove.
- vedtopkar 8y ago
  Didn't know that, thanks!