FOCAL MYOPATHY INDUCED BY CHRONIC INTRAMUSCULAR HEROIN INJECTION

Authors
LOUIS ED BODNER RA CHALLENOR YB BRUST JCM
Citation
Ed. Louis et al., FOCAL MYOPATHY INDUCED BY CHRONIC INTRAMUSCULAR HEROIN INJECTION, Muscle & nerve, 17(5), 1994, pp. 550-552
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Muscle & nerve → ACNP
ISSN journal
0148639X
Volume
17
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
550 - 552
Database
ISI
SICI code
0148-639X(1994)17:5<550:FMIBCI>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A patient developed focal fibrotic myopathy after many years of intram uscular heroin use. While such changes have been associated with chron ic intramuscular injections of pentazocine and meperidine, a similar m yopathy resulting from chronic intramuscular heroin has not been convi ncingly described. (C) 1994 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.