Thoracic Research and Practice
Case report

Esophageal Button Battery Ingestion: A Delayed Diagnosis

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Dicle university Medical School, Thoracic Surgery, Diyarbakır, Turkey

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Dicle university Medical School, Pediatrics, Diyarbakır, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2007; 8: Turkish Respiratory Journal 30-31
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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.

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