Magnetic foreign body ingestions leading to duodenocolonic fistula

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 670-672

  Liu, Steven ^a,b   De Blacam, Catherine ^a   Lim, Foong Yen ^a   Mattei, Peter ^a   Mamula, Petar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DUODENUM; DUODENUM COLON FISTULA; DYSURIA; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTESTINE FISTULA; IRRITABILITY; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNET; MALE; PICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYLORUS; SCHOOL CHILD; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CHILD; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; MAGNETICS; MALE;

FISTULA;

EID: 27644515651     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpg.0000177703.99786.c9     Document Type: Article

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