Department of Emergency Medicine

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Category: Visual Diagnosis

Title: What's the Diagnosis?

Posted: 12/29/2014 by Haney Mallemat, MD (Emailed: 12/30/2014) (Updated: 12/30/2014)
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Question

19 year-old male complaining of left arm pain one week after injecting anabolic steroids into his sholder. What's the diagnosis?

Answer

Myositis of the deltoid muscle

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