Sunday, March 1, 2009

Cocaine Nose

A picture is worth a thousand words. This 50 year old man had used cocaine for 20 years. Cocaine causes vasoconstriction and in fact, it is used as a local anesthetic medically when there is a need to do a procedure and stop bleeding. This same vasoconstrictive property can cause skin breakdown and erosion of the nasal septum.photo credit: Consultant