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1Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.
Background:
Prolonged application of steroid containing cream can pose a serious challenge to users. Apart from making the skin lighter it creates a spectrum of diseases in those that use them as the adrenal glands are suppressed and are unable to secrete more steroids when required.
Objective:
The objective is to report on a patient who presented with severe sepsis after a long period of application of steroids to the skin.
Methods:
A patient who has applied steroids to the skin over a prolonged period was followed up during treatment to ascertain the complications that the patient sustained during the period of treatment.
Conclusion:
The patient was found to have developed a pelvic induration without abscess. She also had a large anterior abdominal wall abscess superficial to the external oblique muscle extending towards the left flank.
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