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ArticleJournal of emergencies, trauma, and shock

Body Packer Syndrome.

Akant Arora, Sandeep Jain, Ayush Srivastava, Manish Mehta, Kartik Pancholy

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Article in Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Akant AroraDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Sandeep JainDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Ayush SrivastavaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Manish MehtaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Kartik PancholyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Max Super Speciality Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

"Body packers" are persons who voluntarily or through coercion, swallow or insert drug-filled packets into body cavity, generally in an attempt to smuggle them across secure borders. The drugs most often involved in body packing are heroin and cocaine. Body packers can present in the emergency department as a result of ruptured drug packets, bowel obstruction, or for medicolegal purposes. Suspected cases are diagnosed with X-ray and computed tomography scan of the abdomen. Symptomatic patients require urgent removal of packets. We present a case of foreign national male in whom a drug packet got ruptured and 49 other packets were retrieved with help of laxatives and manual evacuation.

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Body packerdrug abuseforeign bodies

Identifiers

PMID33911438
PMCPMC8054804
OpenAlexW3136338245

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