Fatal ecstasy intoxication in a 22-year-old man;Ecstasy-intoxicatie met fatale afloop bij een 22-jarige man

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 151, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 1690-1694

  Strobbe, L ^a,b   De Jager, C P C ^a   Louwerse, E S ^a   Rozendaal, F W ^a  

^a Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; DANTROLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER; HALLUCINOGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE;

EID: 34547650346     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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