Button 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 batter...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Hossam Thabet, Waleed Mohamed Basha, Sherif Askar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/846091