Smoking synthetic marijuana leads to self-mutilation requiring bilateral amputations

Orthopedics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Meijer, Karim A ^a   Russo, Russell R ^a   Adhvaryu, Dhaval V ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Baton Rouge General   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID DERIVATIVE; DESIGNER DRUG;

ACUTE PSYCHOSIS; ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BURN; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FACE INJURY; FINGER; HAND INJURY; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; BURNS; CANNABINOIDS; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED; SELF MUTILATION; SMOKING; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84899840122     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: 19382367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20140401-62     Document Type: Article

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