Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis

Foreign body ingestion is common in infants and young children and they pass spontaneously in most of the cases. Magnetic foreign bodies, though not very common, require early intervention to avoid severe gastrointestinal complications. We report a case of multiple magnet ingestion who presented wit...

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Autores principales: Verma, Shraddha, Shinde, Sunil, Gupta, Chhabi Ranu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24347873
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.121126
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spelling pubmed-38538612013-12-16 Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis Verma, Shraddha Shinde, Sunil Gupta, Chhabi Ranu J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Foreign body ingestion is common in infants and young children and they pass spontaneously in most of the cases. Magnetic foreign bodies, though not very common, require early intervention to avoid severe gastrointestinal complications. We report a case of multiple magnet ingestion who presented with peritonitis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3853861/ /pubmed/24347873 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.121126 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis
title_fullStr Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis
title_full_unstemmed Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis
title_short Multiple magnet ingestion: An uncommon cause of peritonitis
title_sort multiple magnet ingestion: an uncommon cause of peritonitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853861/
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