Open AccessScreening of Illegal Intracorporeal Containers (“Body Packing”): Is Abdominal Radiography Sufficiently Accurate? A Comparative Study with Low-Dose CT
Author(s) -
Pierre–Alexandre Poletti,
Laurent Canel,
Christoph Becker,
Hans Wolff,
Bernice Simone Elger,
Eric D. Lock,
François Sarasin,
Monica S. Bonfanti,
Elise Dupuis-Lozeron,
Thomas Perneger,
Alexandra Platon
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.118
H-Index - 295
eISSN - 1527-1315
pISSN - 0033-8419
DOI - 10.1148/radiol.12112767
Subject(s) - medicine , radiography , supine position , nuclear medicine , radiology , institutional review board , effective dose (radiation) , surgery
To evaluate the diagnostic performance of abdominal radiography in the detection of illegal intracorporeal containers (hereafter, packets), with low-dose computed tomography (CT) as the reference standard.