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Boy has surgery to remove magnets

By Cai Wenjun | November 30, 2012, Friday |

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AN eight-year-old local boy is recovering well after surgery in a local pediatric hospital yesterday to remove two magnets that damaged his intestines when he swallowed them.

The magnets were in his body for nearly 40 hours before they were removed at Shanghai Children's Hospital. Doctors said one magnet was in the large intestine and the other in the small intestine. The two magnets endangered his health after clamping part of his intestines together, like a sandwich. They injured his intestines in three areas.

Doctors said it is unusual to have to open up the abdomen to remove swallowed items. Doctor Xu Weijue at Shanghai Children's Hospital said most odd items swallowed by children can be excreted naturally or removed through minimally invasive surgery with an endoscope.

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