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Dermatologic Features of Chronic Intramuscular Use of Ketamine: a Case Report by Melika Ebrahimian; Nasim Zamani; Sahel Shafiee Dolat Abadi; Mehdi Gheisari; Rebecca McDonald; Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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A 33-year-old female presented with lethargy due to multidrug toxicity. At physical examination, both gluteal regions showed brown patchy scars. The atrophic scars surrounding necrotic lesions were round and brown in appearance, and gluteal mass had gradually been lost. The patient disclosed using intramuscular ketamine injections for 3.5 years along with smoking hashish, alcohol use, intranasal use of methamphetamine (sniffing), and oral use of methadone. Since recreational drug use can affect multiple organs, dermatologists should be familiar with the dermatologic features of intravenous or intramuscular injecting drug use.

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Author

Melika Ebrahimian; Nasim Zamani; Sahel Shafiee Dolat Abadi; Mehdi Gheisari; Rebecca McDonald; Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)