Needle Pulmonary Embolism in an Intravenous Drug User: a Case Report
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BACKGROUND Illicit drug use has become an increasing public health and social concern in the past decades worldwide. Intravenous injection has an elevated risk of infection. Needle embolism is a rare complication of intravenous drug users, Retained broken needles can lead to local complications, such as infection, but they also have the potential to embolize to heart or lung, and lead to seriou...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1557-1874,1557-1882
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-020-00420-y