3 cases of primary intracranial hemorrhage associated with Molly, a purified form of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 323, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 257-260

  Kahn, D Ethan ^a   Ferraro, Nicholas ^a   Benveniste, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); Ecstasy; Intracranial hemorrhage; Molly

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; ATORVASTATIN; CANNABINOID; ETIRACETAM; IBUPROFEN; ILLICIT DRUG; MANNITOL; NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VASCULITIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; PARESIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867849578     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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