Surgical treatment of multiple magnet ingestion in children: A single-center study

Table 1 Clinical data of children with ingested magnetic foreign bodies at admission

	n = 56	Proportion (Intragroup proportion)1
The time of ingestion can be confirmed	45	80.4%
< 3 d	(33)	(73.3%)
3-14 d	(7)	(15.6)
> 14 d	(5)	(11.1)
Unable to determine the time of ingestion	11	19.6%
Having gastrointestinal symptoms	(9)	(81.8%)
Having no gastrointestinal symptoms	(2)	(18.2%)
Admission symptoms
Abdominal pain (crying)	6	10.7%
Abdominal pain (crying) and vomiting	15	26.8%
Abdominal pain (crying), vomiting, and fever	3	5.4%
Shock	2	3.6%
No symptoms	30	53.6%

¹Proportion is the proportion of this item to the total cases with magnetic ingestion. The intragroup proportion in parentheses is the proportion of this item to the number of cases within the subgroup.