Intensive Care Medicine

, Volume 33, Issue 11, pp 2030–2031 | Cite as

Extensive pallidal and white matter injury following cocaine overdose

  • Sophie De Roock
  • Philippe Hantson
  • Pierre-François Laterre
  • Thierry Duprez
Correspondence

Keywords

Cocaine Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Hepatic Encephalopathy Ecstasy Akinetic Mutism 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Sophie De Roock
    • 1
  • Philippe Hantson
    • 1
  • Pierre-François Laterre
    • 1
  • Thierry Duprez
    • 2
  1. 1.Intensive Care, Cliniques St-LucUniversité Catholique de LouvainBrusselsBelgium
  2. 2.Department of Neuroradiology, Cliniques St-LucUniversité Catholique de LouvainBrusselsBelgium

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