Puffy hand in long-term intravenous drug users;Volumineux œdèmes des mains chez des patients toxicomanes intra veineux au long cours

Journal des Maladies Vasculaires

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 201-204

  Simonnet, N ^a   Marcantoni, N ^a   Simonnet, L ^a   Griffon, C ^a   Chakfe, N ^a   Wertheimer, J ^b   Stephan, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Hospitalor   (France)

Author keywords

Drug addiction; Lymphedema; Puffy hands

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EDEMA; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; HAND; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TIME;

ADULT; EDEMA; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7544231402     PISSN: 03980499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0398-0499(04)96748-0     Document Type: Article

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