{
  "abstract": "A woman in her 20s presented to the burns centre 28 days after sustaining an injury to the medial aspects of both her thighs. The patient reported one occasion of recreational use of nitrous oxide before developing the wounds. This involved stabilising a nitrous oxide canister between her thighs while inflating balloons with the gas to inhale. She noted that her skin had become red initially but did not perform any first aid. The next day there was blistering of the affected areas which prompted a visit to a local medical walk-in centre where her wounds were dressed and oral clarithromycin was prescribed for a suspected, but unconfirmed wound infection. She was referred to our burns centre after the wound failed to improve.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Minh Tri Jonathan Van"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Laura Cappuyns"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Dilnath Gurusinghe"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Kayvan Shokrollahi"
    }
  ],
  "title": "A new and increasingly common pattern of soft tissue injury",
  "uid": "79523925-454a-5761-94be-e86bc4b8ece6"
}