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This young female suffered massive unilateral infarction of the cerebellum due to cocaine use. While cocaine-associated small, asymptomatic cerebellar infarcts have been reported in the literature, massive, symptomatic cerebellar infarction attending the use of cocaine has not been previously reported.
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Aggarwal, S., Byrne, B.D. Massive ischemic cerebellar infarction due to cocaine use. Neuroradiology 33, 449–450 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00598624
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00598624