Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente

Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies in childhood is an increasing problem. Although many of them can be treated with an expectant approach, allowing their passage through the gastrointestinal tract, magnets must be extracted, due to their high rate of complications, such as perforation. We report...

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Autores principales: Cortés A,Claudio, Silva F,Claudio
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2006
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720060010000162006-12-28Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo crecienteCortés A,ClaudioSilva F,Claudio Foreign bodies Intestinal perforation X-rays Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies in childhood is an increasing problem. Although many of them can be treated with an expectant approach, allowing their passage through the gastrointestinal tract, magnets must be extracted, due to their high rate of complications, such as perforation. We report three patients that ingested magnets. A five year-old male was operated with an extensive ulceration of the jejunum, where a cylindrical magnet was extracted. A four year-old female was operated with a perforation of the anterior wall of the stomach and three magnets were extracted from the peritoneal cavity. A four year-old female, was transferred from a hospital where she had been operated for a magnet ingestion that provoked three perforations in the small bowelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.134 n.10 20062006-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872006001000016es10.4067/S0034-98872006001000016
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Foreign bodies
Intestinal perforation
X-rays
spellingShingle Foreign bodies
Intestinal perforation
X-rays
Cortés A,Claudio
Silva F,Claudio
Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
description Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies in childhood is an increasing problem. Although many of them can be treated with an expectant approach, allowing their passage through the gastrointestinal tract, magnets must be extracted, due to their high rate of complications, such as perforation. We report three patients that ingested magnets. A five year-old male was operated with an extensive ulceration of the jejunum, where a cylindrical magnet was extracted. A four year-old female was operated with a perforation of the anterior wall of the stomach and three magnets were extracted from the peritoneal cavity. A four year-old female, was transferred from a hospital where she had been operated for a magnet ingestion that provoked three perforations in the small bowel
author Cortés A,Claudio
Silva F,Claudio
author_facet Cortés A,Claudio
Silva F,Claudio
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title Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
title_short Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
title_full Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
title_fullStr Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
title_full_unstemmed Ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: Un riesgo creciente
title_sort ingestión accidental de imanes en niños y sus complicaciones: un riesgo creciente
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2006
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