The epidemic of cocaine-related juxtapyloric perforations: With a comment on the importance of testing for Helicobacter pylori

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 801-806

  Feliciano, David V ^a,b   Ojukwu, John C ^a   Rozycki, Grace S ^a   Ballard, Robert B ^a   Ingram, Walter L ^a   Salomone, Jeffrey ^a   Namias, Nicholas ^a   Newman, Paul G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH PERFORATION;

ADULT; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYLORUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033497564     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199906000-00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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