Neurovascular Complications of Cocaine Use at a Tertiary Stroke Center

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-278

  Toossi, Shahed ^a   Hess, Christopher P ^a   Hills, Nancy K ^a   Josephson, S Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cocaine; Stroke; vasculitis; vasospasm

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULITIS; VASOSPASM; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77953595554     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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