Cocaine Exposure in Childhood: Neurologic Signs

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-8-4-5

Cocaine Exposure in Childhood: Neurologic Signs

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 8 (1994): Issue 4

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Apr 1994

Abstract

Neurologic manifestations of cocaine exposure in 19 (46%) of 41 children, ages 2 months to 18 years, found to have cocaine-positive urine screening tests during a 1-year period (Jan - Dec 1990), are reported from the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-8-4-5 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 27 - 28

Published on: Apr 1, 1994

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Cocaine Exposure,

Neurotoxicity,

Benzoylecgonine

© 1994 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 8 (1994): Issue 4