Digestive Tract Injuries Caused by Ingested Foreign Bodies Containing Magnets

Indian Pediatr. 2021 Mar 15;58(3):280-281. doi: 10.1007/s13312-021-2171-0.

Abstract

We report on 16 children with ingestion of magnetic foreign bodies, who were identified by a medical record review of our hospital data for the time period between January, 2017 and May, 2018. Digestive tract wall was sandwiched in 13 (75%) children and 11 (74%) had gaptic intestinal perforation.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Foreign Bodies* / complications
  • Foreign Bodies* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Perforation* / etiology
  • Intestinal Perforation* / surgery
  • Magnets