During recent 10 years, antibiotics as well as chemotherapy have much contributed to medical field. There fore, complications such as the pheripheral nerve injury by intramuscular injection have been occured very often.
Such a injury is taken a place in the sciatic nerve in the gluteal region which is usually taken as intramuscular region.
All the case of this report described below, except one case, are sciatic nerve injury.(They are injected only once or more as the therapeutic aim of a certain disease.) The esceptional one case is the diffuse and severe skin necrosis by repeated injections.
In order to prevent this complications, it must be advised that the site of intramuscular injection must be changed, or ventrogluteal site is better than the gluteal rgion where we have taken as the sites of the injections. Anatomically, the muscle mass of this site is comparatively large and there is not the important motor nerve in this region.
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