Button Battery Ingestion with different outcome – two case reports from a Tertiary care Hospital | Zendy

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Button Battery Ingestion with different outcome – two case reports from a Tertiary care Hospital

Author(s) -

Suman Sarkar,

Amrita Roy,

Anirban Chatterjee,

Bidhan Roy,

Sandip Mondal,

Koushik Pramanik

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of pediatric sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1309-1247

DOI - 10.17334/jps.69047

Subject(s) - ingestion , tertiary care , medicine , battery (electricity) , emergency medicine , medical emergency , physics , power (physics) , quantum mechanics

Button battery ingestion is a distinct type of foreign body ingestion in children because of their potential to cause major injury or life threatening consequences. According to National Poison Data System, United States of America, there is a 6.7 fold increase in the percentage of button battery ingestion with major or fatal outcomes from 1985-2009. We are reporting two cases with history of accidental ingestion of button battery with different outcome.

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