title: Acute heroin myelopathy--case report.
abstract: Description of a case of benign acute transverse myelopathy in a young woman who had taken heroin I.V. after a two-year free interval. Spinal angiography was negative but CT scanning of the cord showed a swelling at C3.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D004342:Drug Hypersensitivity; D005260:Female; D003932:Heroin / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000139:chemically induced; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000139:chemically induced; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
chemical_list: D003932:Heroin