Double Jejunoileal Fistula after Ingestion of Magnets

A double jejunoileal fistula was diagnosed intraoperatively 10 months since a 4-year-old boy had swallowed an object consisted of multiple magnetic items. Magnet ingestion presents characteristics that are misdiagnosing, critical time-consuming, dangerous, and occasionally fatal. The particularities...

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Autores principales: Zachos, Konstantinos, Panagidis, Antonios, Georgiou, George, Alexopoulos, Vasileios, Sinopidis, Xenophon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30686890
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_92_18
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author Zachos, Konstantinos
Panagidis, Antonios
Georgiou, George
Alexopoulos, Vasileios
Sinopidis, Xenophon
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description A double jejunoileal fistula was diagnosed intraoperatively 10 months since a 4-year-old boy had swallowed an object consisted of multiple magnetic items. Magnet ingestion presents characteristics that are misdiagnosing, critical time-consuming, dangerous, and occasionally fatal. The particularities and pitfalls of ingested magnetic items are outlined.
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spelling pubmed-63221872019-01-25 Double Jejunoileal Fistula after Ingestion of Magnets Zachos, Konstantinos Panagidis, Antonios Georgiou, George Alexopoulos, Vasileios Sinopidis, Xenophon J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report A double jejunoileal fistula was diagnosed intraoperatively 10 months since a 4-year-old boy had swallowed an object consisted of multiple magnetic items. Magnet ingestion presents characteristics that are misdiagnosing, critical time-consuming, dangerous, and occasionally fatal. The particularities and pitfalls of ingested magnetic items are outlined. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6322187/ /pubmed/30686890 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_92_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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