Button battery ingestion: a solution to a management dilemma.
There is a dilemma in the management of ingested intact button batteries in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract distal to the oesophagus: whether to do an emergency laparotomy or to adopt a wait-and-watch policy. In this case report an effective, safe, and quick method of GI lavage was used and a button battery was expelled successfully from the stomach without resorting to laparotomy or endoscopy.
Department of Paediatric Surgery, The Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai 600 034, India.
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005751:Gastric Lavage / Q000379:methods*; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013270:Stomach
D004573:Electrolytes; C033608:Golytely; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols