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Revisiting Swallowed Troubles: Intestinal Complications Caused by Two Magnets—A Case Report, Review and Proposed Revision to the Algorithm for the Management of Foreign Body Ingestion
Viju Vijaysadan, Maria Perez and David Kuo
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine September 2006, 19 (5) 511-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.5.511
Viju Vijaysadan
MD
Maria Perez
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The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine
Vol. 19, Issue 5
September-October 2006
Revisiting Swallowed Troubles: Intestinal Complications Caused by Two Magnets—A Case Report, Review and Proposed Revision to the Algorithm for the Management of Foreign Body Ingestion
Viju Vijaysadan, Maria Perez, David Kuo
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Sep 2006, 19 (5) 511-516; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.5.511
Revisiting Swallowed Troubles: Intestinal Complications Caused by Two Magnets—A Case Report, Review and Proposed Revision to the Algorithm for the Management of Foreign Body Ingestion
Viju Vijaysadan, Maria Perez, David Kuo
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Sep 2006, 19 (5) 511-516; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.5.511
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