Heroin inhalation-induced unilateral complete hippocampal stroke

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 313-315

  Benoilid, Aurélien ^a,c   Collongues, Nicolas ^a,b,c   de Seze, Jérôme ^b,c   Blanc, Fréderic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Université de Strasbourg   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Heroin; Hippocampus; Seizure; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDOCARDITIS; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AMNESIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEROIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; NARCOTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STROKE;

EID: 84873083426     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.667125     Document Type: Article

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