[Ingested magnetic button. A rare cause of intestinal rupture]

Indoor wounds in infants probably represent widest range of minor lesions. However, there are casualties as consequence of falls, burns and ingestion of foreign bodies. Intestinal rupture due to ingested magnetic device is a very unusual event. We report the case of a four-month old female patient with this complication is presented. During first laparotomy intestinal rupture and magnetic buttons of cellular telephone as causal agent was found. Three days after operation, she required a second look due to cecum rupture. Primary reparation was performed. In order to demonstrate a pathogenic hypothesis, the bottom was put in a porcine bowel segment surrounding for a metallic jail, resulting in bowel rupture. We concluded that the ingested magnetic devices can produce intestinal rupture.