Magnet ingestion knows no borders: A threat for Latin American children
Introduction and aims: The ingestion of foreign bodies, such as magnets, is a potentially lethal accident that affects children and is associated with bleeding and gastrointestinal perforation, as well as death. There are no Latin American reports in the literature on cases of magnet ingestion in ch...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-07-01
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| Series: | Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition) |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2255534X21001195 |