title: Images in emergency medicine. Chronic neck pain from a retained needle as a result of intravenous drug use. Acute neck abscess and cellulitis with retained needle fragments as a result of intravenous drug use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Edward T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Dickinson
authors.forename: Francis J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: DeRoos
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D019547:Neck Pain / Q000209:etiology; D009339:Needles; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous