Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 17: 675-676
© 2002 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association
Images in Nephrology
Recreational drug abuse in a dialysis patient
(Section Editor: G. H. Neild)
Renal Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
A 45-year-old woman developed cellulitis of the left breast following injection of recreational drugs into a collateral mammary vein (Figure 1
). She had a history of injecting drugs both subcutaneously and intravenously since the age of seventeen.
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