Esophageal Button Battery Ingestion: A Delayed Diagnosis
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VOLUME: 8 ISSUE: 1
P: 30 - 31
April 2007

Esophageal Button Battery Ingestion: A Delayed Diagnosis

1. Dicle university Medical School, Thoracic Surgery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
2. Dicle university Medical School, Pediatrics, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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Accepted Date: 14.10.2021
Online Date: 14.10.2021
Publish Date: 14.10.2021
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Abstract

A 5-month-old girl has been presented with a button battery ingestion, in whom a severe mucosal burn of the proximal esophagus was diag­nosed 21 days after impaction. In spite of 21 days before diagnosis, no perforation had occured and severe mucosal burn of the proximal esophagus was diagnosed. The patient was treated succesfully.

Keywords:
foreign body, esophagus, button battery, total parenteral nutrition