Consider ketamine misuse in patients with urinary symptoms

Practitioner

Volumn 252, Issue 1711, 2008, Pages 5-

  Cottrell, Angela M ^b   Gillatt, David ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; STREET DRUG;

ADDICTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MICTURITION DISORDER;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 54549118352     PISSN: 00326518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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