In the literature, many authors have reported cases of unintentional magnet ingestion; the high rate of complicationsreported in many different cases requires early removal of suchobjects. Intestinal perforation, peritonitis, volvulus and intestinalfistula are the most commonly reported secondary complicationsrelated to the ingestion of magnets and are mainly caused by theirlate removal. The authors of the present report studied an interesting case of magnet ingestion incidentally diagnosed during chest X-rays for a suspected relapse of pneumonia.
Unusual Diagnosis of Multiple Magnet Ingestion / Zampieri, Nicola; Consolaro*, G; Ottolenghi, Alberto; Camoglio, Francesco Saverio. - In: PEDIATRICS INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 1328-8067. - (2010), pp. 14-16. [10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02995.x]
Unusual Diagnosis of Multiple Magnet Ingestion
CAMOGLIO, Francesco Saverio
2010-01-01
Abstract
In the literature, many authors have reported cases of unintentional magnet ingestion; the high rate of complicationsreported in many different cases requires early removal of suchobjects. Intestinal perforation, peritonitis, volvulus and intestinalfistula are the most commonly reported secondary complicationsrelated to the ingestion of magnets and are mainly caused by theirlate removal. The authors of the present report studied an interesting case of magnet ingestion incidentally diagnosed during chest X-rays for a suspected relapse of pneumonia.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.