[Acute injection-induced injuries in drug addicts. A review of 146 consecutive admissions].

Admissions of drug abusers with acute soft tissue lesions at the injection site increased in number over the period 1985-1989. There were 146 admissions in 90 patients. The diagnoses were: 58 superficial abscesses, 27 deep abscesses, 57 cellulitis, one tenosynovitis, one purulent arthritis, one not further categorised abscess and one case of arterial spasm.