SPONTANEOUS ACUTE SUBDURAL-HEMATOMA PRECIPITATED BY COCAINE ABUSE - CASE-REPORT

Authors
KELLER TM CHAPPELL ET
Citation
Tm. Keller et Et. Chappell, SPONTANEOUS ACUTE SUBDURAL-HEMATOMA PRECIPITATED BY COCAINE ABUSE - CASE-REPORT, Surgical neurology, 47(1), 1997, pp. 12-14
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology",Surgery
Journal title
Surgical neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00903019
Volume
47
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
12 - 14
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-3019(1997)47:1<12:SASPBC>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A novel complication of the illicit use of cocaine, a spontaneous acut e subdural hematoma, is described. This case represents another additi on to the growing literature on the negative effects of cocaine on the central nervous system. Photographic documentation of the lesion resp onsible for the hematoma is presented, along with a discussion of the possible pathophysiologic mechanism. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc.