'Body packer' syndrome: Characteristics and treatment - Case report and review

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-91

  Greenberg, Ron ^a,b   Greenberg, Yifa ^a   Kaplan, Ofer ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG TRAFFIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; VOMITING;

EID: 0033973142     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/110241500750009780     Document Type: Article

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