Foreign Bodies

Foreign bodies may be ingested, inserted into a body cavity, or deposited into the body by traumatic or iatrogenic injury

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• AJR Article - Role of Radiology in a National Initiative to Interdict Drug Smuggling: The Dutch Experience

See<a class="external" href="http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/189/2/331" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/189/2/331</a> image below from this article

cellophane tape and latex bundles in rectum of 20-year-old man.


















Condom-filled bolitas wrapped in 23-year-old woman. Double condom sign(arrowheads)

• <a class="external" href="http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/731" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">See Article: Foreign BodiesForeign Bodies RadioGraphics, May1,2003; 23(3): 731 - 757.</a>

• <a class="external" href="http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/731" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Special Report - Foreign Bdies from radiographics</a>
• <a class="external" href="http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/23/3/731" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Medical Devices of the Abdomen and Pelvis RadioGraphics</a>, March1,2005; 25(2): 503 - 523.

• <a class="external" href="http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/3/557" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wooden Foreign Bodies Imaging Appearance</a>
• <a class="external" href="http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/3/557" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">US of Soft-Tissue Foreign Bodies and Associated Complications with Surgical Correlation (Radiographics. 2001;21:1251-1256.)</a>
• <a class="external" href="http://jdm.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/22/1/5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Use of Sonography in the Identification, Localization, and Removal of Soft Tissue Foreign</a> <a class="external" href="http://jdm.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/22/1/5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bodies</a>
  Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, January 1, 2006; 22(1): 5 - 21.
• <a class="external" href="http://www.jultrasoundmed.org/cgi/reprint/22/12/1381" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Case Series Clinically Unsuspected Foreign Bodies</a> - The Importance of Sonography J - Ultrasound Med 22:1381-1385 • 0278-4297