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Case Reports
. 2020 May 4;192(18):E480.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.191500.

Myositis from intramuscular oil injections in a bodybuilder

Graeme Prosperi-Porta  1 , Christopher Oleynick  2 , Stephen Vaughan  2
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Myositis from intramuscular oil injections in a bodybuilder

Graeme Prosperi-Porta et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
(A) Photograph of a 32-year-old amateur bodybuilder showing an erythematous patch over his left bicep (arrow), (B) axial T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and (C) axial T2-weighted MRI showing hyperintensity (arrows), and (D) axial short tau inversion recovery MRI showing nodular areas of marked signal hypointensity.
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