Focal myopathy induced by chronic intramuscular heroin injection.

Muscle Nerve

Department of Neurology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.

Published: May 1994

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A patient developed focal fibrotic myopathy after many years of intramuscular heroin use. While such changes have been associated with chronic intramuscular injections of pentazocine and meperidine, a similar myopathy resulting from chronic intramuscular heroin has not been convincingly described.

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