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Case Reports

Intramuscular Abscess

Another Anabolic Steroid Danger

Pages 105-110 | Published online: 12 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

In brief A 24-year-old man had been reusing needles to inject anabolic-androgenic steroids intramuscularly and developed a thigh abscess. He was treated with intravenous antibiotics, and the abscess was surgically drained. The case highlights the danger of intramuscular steroid injection and of reusing needles.

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