This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Raymond L. Swarts, MD; Luis A. Martinez, MD; Hugh G. Robson, MD

JAMA. 1981;246(3):246.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

THE DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis of agents causing abscess formation at sites remote from the genital tract usually does not include Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We report the finding of a gonococcal abscess in the biceps muscle of a young woman.

Report of a Case

A 22-year-old woman was hospitalized with pain and swelling that had developed in her right biceps muscle over a three-day period and had persisted for three weeks. The pain radiated into and was aggravated by any movement of the shoulder. It was partially relieved with salicylate therapy and hot packs. The patient denied having fever, chills, rash, arthralgias, dysuria, abdominal pain, local trauma, heavy exercise, or vaginal discharge. She had used birth control pills for the previous six months, and the completion of her last menstruation was one week before admission. Her last sexual contact was two weeks before the onset of symptoms.

On admission, the patient was in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 3775 University St, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada (Dr Robson).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?