Delayed presentation of severe ocular injury from a button battery
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Delayed 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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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009094