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Most published cases involve women undergoing screening mammography with incidental identification of pigment migration. On imaging, pigment can present as high-density deposits on mammography and echogenic foci on ultrasound, mimicking calcifications. Reported sites of deposition most commonly include axillary lymph nodes and intramammary nodes. If no other morphologic abnormalities are identified and the findings can be confidently attributed to tattoo pigment, biopsy is not necessary. Histopathologically, tattoo pigment appears as aggregates of granular exogenous material. 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