• Abdominal imaging · May 2008

    Swallowed opium packets: CT diagnosis.

    • Taheri Morteza Sanei MS Radiology Department, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shaheed Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran. saneim@yahoo.com, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Shirin Birang, Hamid Hemadi, Makhtum Shahnazi, Amir Hossein Jalali, Madjid Shakiba, and Vahideh Nahvi.
    • Radiology Department, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shaheed Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran. saneim@yahoo.com
    • Abdom Imaging. 2008 May 1; 33 (3): 262-6.

    PurposeThe aim of this study is to report our experience in diagnosis of the opium body packers with CT scan.Materials And MethodsFor 12 cases who confessed to opium packet ingestion, we did an abdominal and pelvic CT scan without contrast and evaluated the presence, number and location of opium packets and also measured the density of packets in Hounsfield unit (HU).ResultsMean age of our cases was 28.2 +/- 5.9 years (ranging 17-35 years). Eleven (91.6%) patients were male and only one case was female. In all patients, the packets were visualized in gastrointestinal (GI) lumen by CT scan. The mean of minimum HU was 163.8 +/- 19.6 and its maximum was 205.3 +/- 32.8. We had mortality in an 18-year-old female due to opium overdose.ConclusionCT scan could be a suitable imaging modality in identifying opium packets, similar to that reported for cocaine and heroin.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…