Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9197433 | Neurocirugía | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Cocaine abuse has been associated with a variety of intracranial haemorrhagic disorders, such as intracerebral, subdural or subarachnoidal haemor-rhage. Frecuently, these patients harbour underlying vascular malformations, like cerebral aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations (AVM). To the best of our knowledge only two cases of tumoral haemor-rhage induced by cocaine abuse have been previously reported. We describe a new case of intracerebral haemorrhage after cocaine inhalation, in which both the preoperative imaging studies and the pathological examination showed a brain tumour as the origin of the haemorrhage. We think that cocaine abuse may be considered as a new precipitating factor in intratumoral haemorrhage.
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Authors
M. Ortega-MartÃnez, J.M. Cabezudo-Artero, L. Fernández-Portales, L.F. Gómez-Perals, L.F. Porras-Estrada,