Aseptic myonecrosis following intramuscular benzathine penicllin G injection: a novel syndrome
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Nicholas Ryan
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Andrew Olson
Abstract
We report a novel syndrome of aseptic myonecrosis in a child occurring after intramuscular (IM) benzathine penicillin G injection for the treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis. Common side effects of IM injection, including transient injection site pain and inflammation, are common and well described. However, isolated myonecrosis following IM injection in the pediatric patient has not been previously reported. Only one similar case, following IM diclofenac injection, has been discussed in the adult literature.
Author contributions: Andrew Olson: Dr. Olson critically reviewed the manuscript and approved the final manuscript. Nicholas Ryan: Dr. Ryan drafted and edited the initial manuscript and approved the final manuscript. All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Exploring the iceberg of inappropriateness in hemostasis testing
- Review
- Diagnoses in and out of time: historical and medical perspectives on the diagnoses of distress
- Mini Review
- Five things to know about diagnostic error
- Opinion Paper
- The scientific nature of diagnosis
- Original Articles
- An assessment of overutilization and underutilization of laboratory tests by expert physicians in the evaluation of patients for bleeding and thrombotic disorders in clinical context and in real time
- Misdiagnosis of cerebellar hemorrhage – features of ‘pseudo-gastroenteritis’ clinical presentations to the ED and primary care
- The kinetics of haemoglobin and ferritin in longitudinal community patients with iron deficiency or hypoxia
- Which of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol estimates can be used in children with type 1 diabetes?
- Case Report
- Aseptic myonecrosis following intramuscular benzathine penicllin G injection: a novel syndrome
- Congress Abstracts
- Diagnostic Error in Medicine
