The use of a metal detector to locate ingested metallic foreign bodies in children

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 341-342

  Tidey, B ^a   Price, G J ^a   Perez Avilla, C A ^b   Kenney, I J ^c  

^a ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Accident Department

^c ROYAL ALEXANDRA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Foreign body; Metal detector

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ELECTRONICS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029781165     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.13.5.341     Document Type: Article

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