Post-injection subcutaneous atrophy.

Abstract

No aggressive surgical therapy is usually needed in young patients with post-injection
lipoatrophy, due to its benign, self-healing clinical course. Here is reported the case of a
5-year-old girl who developed a severe subcutaneous atrophy with centrifugal extension in
the gluteal region at the site of intramuscular injection of lincomycin plus dexamethasone.
The lesions regressed almost completely 6 months later.