TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Cocaine
JO  - Medicine (Abingdon)
A1  - Vale, Allister
SP  - 607
EP  - 607
VL  - 35
IS  - 11
N2  - Cocaine is a psychomotor stimulant that inhibits re-uptake of monoamines into presynaptic terminals, thereby prolonging and augmenting their effects. Cocaine is also a powerful local anaesthetic and vasoconstrictor. In addition to euphoria, ventricular arrhythmias, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, acute dissection of the aorta, renal and intestinal infarction occur. Chronic intranasal use may cause perforation of the nasal septum and cerebrospinal rhinorrhoea as a result of thinning of the cribriform plate.<p /> 
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SN  - 1357-3039
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2007.08.010
ID  - ref1
ER  -