Safety-pin ingestion in children: A cultural fact

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 482-484

  Gün, Feryal ^a,b   Salman, Tansu ^b   Abbasoglu, Latif ^b   Çelik, Rüya ^b   Çelik, Alaaddin ^b  

^a Istanbul Univ and Medical School ^*  (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Foreign body ingestion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DUODENUM FOREIGN BODY; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FOREIGN BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY PIN; STOMACH FOREIGN BODY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TURKEY;

EID: 0042338642     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-003-0964-y     Document Type: Article

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