Body packing, body stuffing and body pushing: Characteristics and pitfalls on low-dose CT

Emergency medicine management of patients transporting cocaine by body-packing

“…If body-packing is admitted by the patient or suspected by the medical team, its confirmation relies in all cases on the realization of a low-dose abdominal CT scan with the patient’s informed consent [7,11]. The CT scan will confirm the presence of the packets and provide information on their packaging, content (solid or liquid), location (stomach) and approximate number.…”