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Handheld Metal Detector Screening for Metallic Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Published on: September 11, 2018
[Difficult-to-Extract Foreign Bodies in Pediatric Patients]
Carlos Mario Mendez-Nieto1, Lucía Casas-Guzik2, Roberto Cervantes-Bustamante3
1Departamento de Endoscopía, Hospital Ángeles, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Departamento de Endoscopía Hospital Ángeles Ciudad JuárezChihuahua México.
Abstract:
The ingestion of foreign bodies is an emergency and one of the accidents with the highest morbidity and mortality in pediatrics. Due to their characteristics and location, some represent a challenge for endoscopic extraction, so it is important to have various accessories and technical skills to achieve extraction. The objective of this article is to present a series of cases of ingestion of difficult-to-extract foreign bodies that required unconventional techniques and that could serve as a guide for the treatment of similar cases.
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