Fatal encephalopathy after an isolated overdose of cocaine [1]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 437-438

  Kondziella, D ^a,b   Danielsen, E R ^a   Arlien Soeborg, P ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTOXICATION; LETTER; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; URINALYSIS; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COCAINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 33947720860     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.088955     Document Type: Letter

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