Multiple magnet ingestion and gastrointestinal morbidity

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 539-540

  Cauchi, J A ^a   Shawis, R N ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CREATININE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRAIN; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INGESTION; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNET; MALE; MORBIDITY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERCUSSION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

CHILD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINES; MAGNETICS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 0036899016     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.87.6.539     Document Type: Article

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