The hazards of alkaline disk batteries as foreign bodies in the nose.
This paper reports a case of intranasal chemical burn and septal perforation caused by an alkaline disk battery accidentally entrapped in the nasal cavity of a 3-year-old girl. The battery in the nasal cavity was removed after about 44 hours, but nasal septal perforation without nasal deformity occurred about 3 weeks after accident.
Sakumoto
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M
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Japan.
Tsukuda
M
M
Mochimatsu
I
I
Ogahara
N
N
D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000150:complications*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000473:pathology*; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology