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Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Published on: September 11, 2018
Novel methods of removing metallic foreign body from human soft tissue: a report of 7390 cases
Guang-Fu Xing1, Chang-Wen Shi, He-Xiang Qian
1Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Eighth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Background:
We studied methods of locating metallic foreign bodies in soft tissue of the human body.
Methods:
Using a three-dimensional (3D) locator, we removed metallic foreign bodies precisely from soft tissue of 7390 patients through magnetic forceps between June 1999 and June 2009.
Results:
In 7390 patients, we successfully removed 99.5% of all metallic foreign bodies by 3D locator and forceps. Average operation time was 5 min.
Conclusions:
Metallic foreign bodies can be located precisely and removed simply with few complications using our 3D location method. The method may lead to minor trauma, less suffering, and a high success rate.
