Disk battery aspiration in a young child: a scarcely reported phenomenon.
Disk (or button) battery ingestion is not uncommon, with an estimated US incidence of 2 to 8 per million annually.(1) Reported serious adverse sequelae include esophageal stenosis, tracheoesophageal fistula, vocal cord paralysis, massive bleeding, and death.(1,2) There are, however, surprisingly few reports of aspirated batteries in the searchable literature; we found only 2. We present the diagnostic workup and treatment of a previously healthy 4-year-old boy with an aspirated disk battery in the bronchus.
Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA 92354, USA. jmclarty@llu.edu
Justin D
JD
McLarty
Miguel
M
Krishnan
Mark R
MR
Rowe
D001980:Bronchi; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002404:Catheterization; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic