Open AccessBUTTON BATTERY - AN UNWITNESSED CAUSE OF BATTERED NOSE
Author(s) -
Shailesh Khode,
Nikesh Gosrani,
Amitkumar Rathi,
Jain S.K.T.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of evolution of medical and dental sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-4802
pISSN - 2278-4748
DOI - 10.14260/jemds/1618
Subject(s) - medicine , battery (electricity) , medical emergency , nose , surgery , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
The presence of foreign body in the nose is not uncommon condition. Various unusual foreign bodies in the nose have been reported in the literature in which button battery is one of them. It is capable of extensive tissue damage by chemical or thermal burns. We describe a case of an unwitnessed button battery in the nose of 3 years old female child resulted in septal perforation.
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