Hashish Body Packing: A Case Report

A 42-year-old African male was brought by the police to the emergency department under suspicion of drug smuggling by body-packing. Plain abdominal radiograph showed multiple foreign bodies within the gastrointestinal tract. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT confirmed the findings, and the patient admi...

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Autores principales: Soriano-Perez, Manuel Jesus, Serrano-Carrillo, Jose Luis, Marin-Montin, Inmaculada, Cruz-Caballero, Alfonso
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19724651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/712573
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author Soriano-Perez, Manuel Jesus
Serrano-Carrillo, Jose Luis
Marin-Montin, Inmaculada
Cruz-Caballero, Alfonso
author_facet Soriano-Perez, Manuel Jesus
Serrano-Carrillo, Jose Luis
Marin-Montin, Inmaculada
Cruz-Caballero, Alfonso
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description A 42-year-old African male was brought by the police to the emergency department under suspicion of drug smuggling by body-packing. Plain abdominal radiograph showed multiple foreign bodies within the gastrointestinal tract. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT confirmed the findings, and the patient admitted to have swallowed “balls” of hashish. Body-packing is a recognized method of smuggling drugs across international borders. Body packers may present to the emergency department because of drug toxicity, intestinal obstruction, or more commonly, requested by law-enforcement officers for medical confirmation or exclusion of suspected body packing.
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spelling pubmed-27315152009-09-01 Hashish Body Packing: A Case Report Soriano-Perez, Manuel Jesus Serrano-Carrillo, Jose Luis Marin-Montin, Inmaculada Cruz-Caballero, Alfonso Case Rep Med Case Report A 42-year-old African male was brought by the police to the emergency department under suspicion of drug smuggling by body-packing. Plain abdominal radiograph showed multiple foreign bodies within the gastrointestinal tract. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT confirmed the findings, and the patient admitted to have swallowed “balls” of hashish. Body-packing is a recognized method of smuggling drugs across international borders. Body packers may present to the emergency department because of drug toxicity, intestinal obstruction, or more commonly, requested by law-enforcement officers for medical confirmation or exclusion of suspected body packing. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2731515/ /pubmed/19724651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/712573 Text en Copyright © 2009 Manuel Jesus Soriano-Perez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Soriano-Perez, Manuel Jesus
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Cruz-Caballero, Alfonso
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19724651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/712573
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