Double jejunoileal fistula after ingestion of magnets

• Main Authors: Konstantinos Zachos (Author), Antonios Panagidis (Author), George Georgiou (Author), Vasileios Alexopoulos (Author), Xenophon Sinopidis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

A double jejunoileal fistula was diagnosed intraoperatively 10 months since a 4-year-old boy had swallowed an object consisted of multiple magnetic items. Magnet ingestion presents characteristics that are misdiagnosing, critical time-consuming, dangerous, and occasionally fatal. The particularities...