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To the Editor: In July, a six-year-old child undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in New York suffered a skull fracture and intracranial hemorrhage after an oxygen tank that had been brought into the room was pulled into the machine at high speed. He died two days later.¹

Undetected or misplaced metal objects have caused numerous injuries during MRI. Twenty-four of 46 MRI facilities responding to a survey in 1999 (52 percent) reported the occurrence of MRI-related accidents.² Large objects involved in such incidents included an intravenous-drug pole, a toolbox, a sandbag containing metal filings, a vacuum cleaner, mop buckets, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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