The neuropathology of cocaine abuse

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Büttner, Andreas ^a   Mall, Gita ^a   Penning, Randolph ^a   Sachs, Hans ^a   Weis, Serge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Stanley Medical Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Receptor; Stroke; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; VASCULITIS; VASOSPASM;

EID: 0038754089     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00122-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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