Citation

Gherardi R, Marc B, Alberti X, Baud FJ, Diamant-Berger O. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1990; 11(2): 154-157.

Affiliation

Emergency Forensic Medicine Unit, Paris, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2343843

Abstract

Drug packets are usually detected by ordinary abdominal radiographs, which is of major importance in the apprehension and prosecution of drug body packers, but false negatives may occur. We report the case of a cocaine body packer who had used the prograde route and in whom the initial abdominal plain films were normal. The diagnosis of cocaine body packing was assessed by seldom-described complementary methods of detection, including drug detection in the urine and contrast study of the bowel.

Language: en