Young Man With Suspected Foreign Body Ingestion

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" Young Man With Suspected Foreign Body Ingestion "
Shufflebarger, Erin F.; DeLaney, Matthew C.; Pigott, David C.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	928163
Doc. No	:	LA2nq2s955
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Shufflebarger, Erin F.; DeLaney, Matthew C.; Pigott, David C.
Title & Author	:	Young Man With Suspected Foreign Body Ingestion [Article]\ Shufflebarger, Erin F.; DeLaney, Matthew C.; Pigott, David C.
Title of Periodical	:	Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/4
Date	:	2019
Abstract	:	As United States emergency departments (ED) and hospitals continue to contend with increasing numbers of patients presenting with complications of substance abuse, emergency physicians should also be aware of patients who may be smuggling illicit drugs. We report the case of a 26-year-old man who was transported to the ED for suspected drug smuggling. Abdominal computed tomography was notable for the presence of multiple tubular foreign bodies throughout the colon that were later identified as packets containing heroin. Body-packing patients present a high-risk clinical scenario that may result in massive, inadvertent drug exposure.