Livedoid and necrotic skin lesions due to intra-arterial buprenorphine injections evidenced by maltese cross-shaped histologic bodies

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-209

  Schneider, Pierre ^a   Duong, Tu Anh ^a   Ortonne, Nicolas ^a   Bagot, Martine ^a   Bouaziz, Jean David ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CRYOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARM; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG ABUSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; FOREIGN BODY; HAND; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEG; LETTER; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; PANNICULITIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS; STAINING;

ADULT; BUPRENORPHINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; NARCOTICS; NECROSIS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 76749167562     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.372     Document Type: Letter

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