Swallowed opium packets: CT diagnosis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-266

  Taheri, Morteza Sanei ^a   Hassanian Moghaddam, Hossein ^a   Birang, Shirin ^a   Hemadi, Hamid ^a   Shahnazi, Makhtum ^a   Jalali, Amir Hossein ^b   Shakiba, Madjid ^b   Nahvi, Vahideh ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body packer; CT scan; Hounsfield Unit; Opium packet; Smuggling

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRIME; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; OPIUM; OVERDOSE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42149117822     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9269-2     Document Type: Article

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