منابع مشابه
Esophageal button battery ingestion in children.
BACKGROUND Button battery lodged in the esophagus carries a high risk of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to present cases of patients with esophageal button battery ingestion treated at our clinic and to emphasize the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. METHODS Records of patients admitted to our hospital for foreign body ingestion between January 2010 and May ...
متن کاملButton battery impaction in nasal cavity.
A button battery inserted in the nose of children is an unusual foreign body which is capable of causing extensive tissue damage, resulting from electrical and chemical burns. We report a case of button battery in the nose of a 4-year-old boy presenting with unilateral nasal discharge, and necrosis in the septum and turbinate of the right nasal cavity. Mercury level in concentrated urine was wi...
متن کاملButton battery injury in children - a primary care issue?
There is a well-described increase in the incidence of significant injury associated with button batteries in children. Button battery ingestion or insertion (ear/nose) is a time-sensitive injury mechanism, with severe injury occurring within hours. Prevention efforts are being developed that may include changes to packaging, public awareness campaigns, safe disposal mechanisms, changes to batt...
متن کاملButton Battery Foreign Bodies in Children: Hazards, Management, and Recommendations
OBJECTIVE The demand and usage of button batteries have risen. They are frequently inadvertently placed by children in their ears or noses and occasionally are swallowed and lodged along the upper aerodigestive tract. The purpose of this work is to study the different presentations of button battery foreign bodies and present our experience in the diagnosis and management of this hazardous prob...
متن کاملDelayed presentation of severe ocular injury from a button battery.
A 2-year-old girl presented to the emergency department at 3:00 h with severe pain in her right eye and a rust coloured, blood stained frothy discharge that had woken her. An examination of her eye revealed a shiny metallic looking foreign body, which was immediately removed by the on-call ophthalmologist. That morning the patient underwent ocular examination under anaesthesia and was found to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2474-1949
DOI: 10.5070/m533039863