Mucosal injuries of the upper aerodigestive tract after smoking crack or freebase cocaine

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 620-625

  Meleca, Robert J ^a,b   Burgio, Don L ^a   Carr, Richard M ^a   Lolachi, Christopher M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS BURN; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 0030907044     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199705000-00012     Document Type: Article

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