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Goanna oil

Khimseng Tew
Radiology Registrar
John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW

MJA 2001; 175: 586

 
The medicinal properties of goanna oil have long been known to Aboriginal people. This x-ray shows the abdomen of a man with chronic pancreatitis, and who was self-administering "alternative medication". The shape of the calcification (arrow) in the region of the pancreatic head makes one wonder if this "alternative medication" might have been goanna oil?

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