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Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report
BACKGROUND: Body packing is used for international drug transport, immediate drug concealment during a police searching or introducing drugs inside prisons. Despite the high level of specialization of dealers who have started to manufacture more complex packs, up to 5% of patients could develop into...
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23641965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-178 |
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author | Neves, Fabio Fernandes Cupo, Palmira Muglia, Valdair Francisco Elias Junior, Jorge Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello Henrique Pazin-Filho, Antonio |
author_facet | Neves, Fabio Fernandes Cupo, Palmira Muglia, Valdair Francisco Elias Junior, Jorge Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello Henrique Pazin-Filho, Antonio |
author_sort | Neves, Fabio Fernandes |
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description | BACKGROUND: Body packing is used for international drug transport, immediate drug concealment during a police searching or introducing drugs inside prisons. Despite the high level of specialization of dealers who have started to manufacture more complex packs, up to 5% of patients could develop intoxication due to pack rupture. Bowel obstruction is another acute complication. CASE PRESENTATION: A 27-year-old black male patient was sent to the hospital by court order for clinical evaluation and toxicological examination. The patient was conscious, oriented, had good color, normal arterial pressure and heart rate, and no signs of acute intoxication. Abdominal examination revealed discrete pain upon deep palpation and a small mass in the left iliac fossa. A plain abdominal radiograph revealed several oval structures located in the rectum and sigmoid. Fasting and a 50 g dose of activated charcoal every six hours were prescribed. After three days, the patient spontaneously evacuated 28 cocaine packs. CONCLUSION: Adequate clinical management and prompt identification of potential complications are of fundamental importance in dealing with body packing. |
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spelling | pubmed-36798332013-06-13 Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report Neves, Fabio Fernandes Cupo, Palmira Muglia, Valdair Francisco Elias Junior, Jorge Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello Henrique Pazin-Filho, Antonio BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Body packing is used for international drug transport, immediate drug concealment during a police searching or introducing drugs inside prisons. Despite the high level of specialization of dealers who have started to manufacture more complex packs, up to 5% of patients could develop intoxication due to pack rupture. Bowel obstruction is another acute complication. CASE PRESENTATION: A 27-year-old black male patient was sent to the hospital by court order for clinical evaluation and toxicological examination. The patient was conscious, oriented, had good color, normal arterial pressure and heart rate, and no signs of acute intoxication. Abdominal examination revealed discrete pain upon deep palpation and a small mass in the left iliac fossa. A plain abdominal radiograph revealed several oval structures located in the rectum and sigmoid. Fasting and a 50 g dose of activated charcoal every six hours were prescribed. After three days, the patient spontaneously evacuated 28 cocaine packs. CONCLUSION: Adequate clinical management and prompt identification of potential complications are of fundamental importance in dealing with body packing. BioMed Central 2013-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3679833/ /pubmed/23641965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-178 Text en Copyright © 2013 Neves et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Neves, Fabio Fernandes Cupo, Palmira Muglia, Valdair Francisco Elias Junior, Jorge Nogueira-Barbosa, Marcello Henrique Pazin-Filho, Antonio Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title | Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title_full | Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title_fullStr | Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title_short | Body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
title_sort | body packing by rectal insertion of cocaine packets: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23641965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-178 |
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