Preschooler with abdominal pain who yesterday was playing with a construction toy that utilizes rare earth magnets

Gastrointestinal
AXR of rare earth magnets causing small bowel obstruction
AXR shows multiple round and cylindrical radiopaque objects in the lower abdomen that are all in close approximation to each other. There are multiple dilated loops of small bowel present.

The diagnosis was gastrointestinal foreign bodies in the form of 9 rare earth magnets which had stuck together in the small bowel causing small bowel obstruction and resulting several days later in small bowel necrosis and small bowel perforation.

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