Cerebrovascular complications of the use of the crack form of alkaloidal cocaine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 323, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 699-704

  Levine, Steven R ^a   Brust, John C m ^b   Futrell, Nancy ^a,c   Ho, K L ^a   Blake, David ^b   Millikan, Clark H ^a,c   Brass, Lawrence M ^d   Fayad, Pierre ^d   Schultz, Lonni R ^a   Selwa, James F ^a   Welch, K M A ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Harlem Hospital Center and Neurological Institute ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COCAINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025102026     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199009133231102     Document Type: Article

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