Zorc T G, O'Donnell A E, Holt R W, Pappas L S, Slakey J
Georgetown University Surgical Division, Washington D.C.
Chest. 1988 Mar;93(3):645-7. doi: 10.1378/chest.93.3.645.
An intravenous drug abuser presented with bilateral pyopneumothoraces and bacteremia which is a previously unreported complication of jugular vein self-injection. The patient sustained direct pleural trauma and resultant infection by injecting herself with contaminated needles.