A new drug with a nasty bite: A case of krokodil-induced skin necrosis in an intravenous drug user
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Commentary on “A new drug with a nasty bite: A case of krokodil-induced skin necrosis in an intravenous drug user”
To the Editor: In a recent article in JAAD Case Reports, Haskin and colleagues implicate krokodil as the cause of skin lesions in a young woman with ongoing intravenous drug abuse. The only evidence supporting krokodil as the cause is the history from the patient. With no analytical confirmation, either from bodily fluids from the patient or from the injected substance, it is difficult to accep...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAAD Case Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2352-5126
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2016.02.007