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. 2013;26(1):91.

Gastrointestinal cocaine body packing

George S Panagoulias  1 , Christos S Basagiannis  1 , Thekla Geragotou  1 , Spiros D Ladas  1
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Gastrointestinal cocaine body packing

George S Panagoulias et al. Ann Gastroenterol. 2013.
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Figure 1
Forty one of the fifty four machine-wrapped packets containing cocaine recovered from body stools of the first case
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