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Year : 2011 | Volume
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Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
Balaji Kannan, Vijayalakshmi Balaji, Sherin Kummararaj, Kummararaj Govindarajan
Department of Medical Retina, Dr. A Govindarajan Eye Hospital and Research Institute, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Balaji Kannan Dr. A Govindarajan Eye Hospital, 6, Officer's Colony, Puthur, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu - 620 017 India
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DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.83619
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Cocaine is used to produce a euphoric effect by abusers, who may be unaware of the devastating systemic and ocular side effects of this drug. We describe the first known case of cilioretinal artery occlusion after intranasal cocaine abuse. |
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