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Volume 350:1260-1261 March 18, 2004 Number 12
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Body Packing

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To the Editor: Spain is an important European entry point for illicit drugs from South America and other countries, and as a consequence, the Spanish experience with body packers has increased in recent years.1,2 In their review of the subject, Traub et al. (Dec. 25 issue)3 do not mention one medical complication that we have observed — namely, upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by prolonged pressure of a packet on the gastric mucosa, with the large size of the packet impeding transit through the pylorus. Many patients do not provide accurate information on the contents of the packets ingested, so it . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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