A case of cocaine-induced basilar artery thrombosis

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 622-626

  MacEwen, Clare ^a   Ward, Mike ^b   Buchan, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; COCAINE; SIMVASTATIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; ATHETOSIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GAZE PARALYSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SLURRED SPEECH; THROMBUS ASPIRATION;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COCAINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 55849086494     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0879     Document Type: Article

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