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Anabolic steroids: what should the emergency physician know?

Brown JT

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, 530 N.E. Glen Oak, Peoria, IL 61637, USA. JBrown5005@aol.com

Anabolic steroids have not currently made their way into the daily practice of emergency physicians. The patients that use and abuse them have. In addition, those patients that are suffering from the consequences of illnesses that have excess levels of androgens are commonly evaluated in the emergency department. Clinicians should familiarize themselves with the practices of anabolic steroid users, so they can provide more beneficial council to their patients.As research continues, the emergency physician may find uses for androgens within the emergency department.

Published 28 June 2005 in Emerg Med Clin North Am, 23(3): 815-26, ix-x.
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