Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by shultays on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:11AM (#12412449)

Isn't a metal wire highly visible in x-ray? How doctors miss that?

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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by balabaster on Friday September 02, 2016 @09:27AM (#12412845)

Also, aren't BBQ bristle brushes magnetic? Wouldn't a simple magnet over the spot have exacerbated the pain and triggered a closer look?

Not that you'd have known to use a magnet to test it, but now it's certainly something that could be considered on a checklist of cheap/free things to check before more expensive/time consuming/invasive procedures are initiated.

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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by drauh on Saturday September 03, 2016 @04:26PM (#12421014)

Bristles are brass (alloy of copper and zinc; corrosion resistant, food-safe), and not magnetic.

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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by Zpalmtree on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:29PM (#12421305)

If they were magnetic, a CAT scan would rip it out I imagine

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Re:Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ br... by genkimind on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:33PM (#12414244)

The only xray given were CT scans. How it was missed I don't know. It could have to do with the orientation of the wire.

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