TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Unwitnessed magnet ingestion in a 5 year-old boy leading to bowel perforation after magnetic resonance imaging: case report of a rare but potentially detrimental complication
JO  - Patient safety in surgery
A1  - Bailey, James R.
A1  - Eisner, Eric A.
A1  - Edmonds, Eric W.
SP  - e16
EP  - e16
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - The ingestion of non-food items in children is a relatively common event, often unwitnessed, unknown, and unreported. For those children brought in for medical evaluation, less than 10% require intervention, and only 1% require surgery. This, however, is not the case for magnet ingestion. Magnets, in plurality, can become attracted to one another through intestinal walls, causing a variety of surgical emergencies.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1754-9493
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-6-16
ID  - ref1
ER  -