Soft-tissue sarcoma arising from a tissue necrosis caused by an intramuscular injection of diclofenac [22]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1970-1971

  Mayrink, Marcelo ^a   Mendonça, Albert Christian ^a   Da Costa, Paulo Roberto ^a  

^a Hospital Publico Regional de Betim   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC;

ABSCESS; ADULT; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; LETTER; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TISSUE NECROSIS; BUTTOCK; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SARCOMA; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR;

BUTTOCKS; DICLOFENAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SARCOMA; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0642364352     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000089290.92476.24     Document Type: Letter

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