Citation

Dorairaj JJ, Healy C, McMenamin M, Eadie PA. J. Plast. Reconstr. Aesthet. Surg. 2011; 65(2): e37-41.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, St James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.bjps.2011.10.004

PMID

22079081

Abstract

The epidemic of injecting cathinone derivatives, marketed as "bath salts", by intravenous drug users among inner city Dubliners led to an associated rise in soft tissue complications. The spectrum of the cases encountered, ranging from self-limiting cellulitis to extensive abscess formation, at a single institution is described.

Language: en