Cannabis body packing: a case report

Drug traffic is a major concern worldwide. We report a case of a 27-year old male who presented with a diffuse abdominal plain to the emergency department. Abdominal X-ray demonstrated multiple foreign bodies along the intestinal tract, which were found to be cannabis packets. The patient was treate...

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Autores principales: Ngatchou, William, Lemogoum, Daniel, Essola, Basile, Ramadan, Ahmed, Ngassa, Michèle, Guimfacq, Virginie, Mols, Pierre, Towo, Pierre Youatou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5267818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28154682
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.327.9450
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author Ngatchou, William
Lemogoum, Daniel
Essola, Basile
Ramadan, Ahmed
Ngassa, Michèle
Guimfacq, Virginie
Mols, Pierre
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Lemogoum, Daniel
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Ramadan, Ahmed
Ngassa, Michèle
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description Drug traffic is a major concern worldwide. We report a case of a 27-year old male who presented with a diffuse abdominal plain to the emergency department. Abdominal X-ray demonstrated multiple foreign bodies along the intestinal tract, which were found to be cannabis packets. The patient was treated conservatively with a good result.
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spelling pubmed-52678182017-02-02 Cannabis body packing: a case report Ngatchou, William Lemogoum, Daniel Essola, Basile Ramadan, Ahmed Ngassa, Michèle Guimfacq, Virginie Mols, Pierre Towo, Pierre Youatou Pan Afr Med J Case Report Drug traffic is a major concern worldwide. We report a case of a 27-year old male who presented with a diffuse abdominal plain to the emergency department. Abdominal X-ray demonstrated multiple foreign bodies along the intestinal tract, which were found to be cannabis packets. The patient was treated conservatively with a good result. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5267818/ /pubmed/28154682 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.327.9450 Text en © William Ngatchou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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