Department of general surgery A, CHU Hassan II FES, 30000, Morocco
Case Report
The body packers syndrome : management of asymptomatic cases
Author(s): Dkhissi Yassine*, ElBouhaddouti H, Mouaqit O, Benjelloun E, Ousadden A and AIT Taleb K
Introduction
Drugs trafficking are a significant problem for many countries, Body
packing is one of the common ways to traffic illicit drugs. Intra corporeal
drug carriage may lead to potential life-threatening complications with
acute overdose syndromes and death due to ruptured package and
intestinal obstruction that requires an emergency intervention .Patient
management may be adjusted based on clinical symptoms, toxicological
data and employment of appropriate radiological procedures and
techniques for accurate detection and precise diagnosis. The global
support has been the subject of numerous publications and recent
review.
Case report
We report cases of body packers that were detained at Fez International
Airport under suspicion and brought to hospital for observation, all
patients were a.. View More»
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