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The New Zealand Medical Journal

 Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 30-January-2004, Vol 117 No 1188

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The image above is an abdominal radiograph of a young woman recently apprehended in Bermuda and suspected of being a drug courier. The standard investigation of smugglers suspected of drug ingestion is a plain radiograph, as the air trapped in the receptacles (often condoms) gives a distinct appearance as shown in the figure above. Retrieval of the drugs is a less appealing procedure!
     
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