Surgery for "body packers" - A 15-year experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 541-546

  Silverberg, Daniel ^a   Menes, Tehillah ^b   Kim, Unsup ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE SURGERY; LITHOTOMY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCAINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEGLUTITION; ENTEROSTOMY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GASTROSTOMY; HEROIN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREET DRUGS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645578150     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0429-7     Document Type: Review

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