Toxic leucoencephalopathy after ‘chasing the dragon’
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Toxic leucoencephalopathy after 'chasing the dragon'.
Toxic leucoencephalopathy (TLE) is a rare neurological complication of heroin abuse. 'Chasing the dragon' is an inhalational mode of heroin abuse that originated in Southeast Asia. Intriguingly, no cases of TLE have been reported from this region, although the inhalational mode of heroin abuse is common. We herein report the case of a middle-aged man with a history of polysubstance abuse who pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Singapore Medical Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0037-5675
DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2015094