Multiple intracerebral hemorrhages after smoking "crack" cocaine.
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Multiple intracerebral hemorrhages after smoking "crack" cocaine.
After smoking "crack" cocaine and consuming large quantities of ethanol, a 36-year-old man developed multiple, bilateral, deep, and superficial cerebral hematomas. He was hypertensive for several days, but angiography revealed no evidence of vascular malformation or vasculitis. The multifocality of the hematomas and lack of underlying disease suggest that the hemorrhages resulted from cocaine-i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.21.6.957