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 http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/189/2/331 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)

• See Article: Foreign BodiesForeign Bodies RadioGraphics, May1,2003; 23(3): 731 - 757.

• Special Report - Foreign Bdies from radiographics
• Medical Devices of the Abdomen and Pelvis RadioGraphics, March1,2005; 25(2): 503 - 523.

• Wooden Foreign Bodies Imaging Appearance
• US of Soft-Tissue Foreign Bodies and Associated Complications with Surgical Correlation (Radiographics. 2001;21:1251-1256.)
• The Use of Sonography in the Identification, Localization, and Removal of Soft Tissue Foreign Bodies -
  Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, January 1, 2006; 22(1): 5 - 21.
• Case Series Clinically Unsuspected Foreign Bodies - The Importance of Sonography J - Ultrasound Med 22:1381-1385 • 0278-4297