TY - JOUR T1 - Nicolau syndrome or ‘embolia cutis medicamentosa’ in a newborn: successful treatment with a surgical intervention JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - 648 LP - 648 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2021-321637 VL - 107 IS - 6 AU - Brena Costa Santos AU - Rebeca Mangabeira Correia AU - Danielle Akemi Bergara Kuramoto AU - Ana Alyra Garcia Carvalho AU - Rafael Bernardes Avila AU - Jorge Eduardo Amorim AU - Ronald Luiz Gomes Flumignan AU - Luis Carlos Uta Nakano Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/107/6/648.abstract N2 - A 3-day-old male newborn was referred to a quaternary hospital with pain, pallor and cyanosis of the left lower limb for the past 2 days of admission. These signs and symptoms started immediately after intramuscular injection of 50 000 IU of benzathine penicillin G at the lateral face of his left thigh to treat possible congenital syphilis. After diagnosis of acute compartment syndrome secondary to Nicolau syndrome (NS) (figure 1A), the assistant team immediately performed a fasciotomy of the left lower limb … ER -