Urology
Volume 69, Issue 5 , Pages 810-812 , May 2007

Ketamine-Associated Ulcerative Cystitis: A New Clinical Entity

  • Rohan Shahani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Cathy Streutker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Brendan Dickson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Robert J. Stewart

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Robert Stewart, M.D., Division of Urology, St. Michael’s Hospital, 61 Queen Street East, Suite 9-111, Toronto, ON M5C 2T2, Canada.

Received 18 June 2006 ,Accepted 21 January 2007.

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PII: S0090-4295(07)00101-X

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.01.038

Urology
Volume 69, Issue 5 , Pages 810-812 , May 2007

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