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More than 3,500 individuals ingest lithium batteries, used in watches, toys and remote controls, in the United States each year. Such ingestion is dangerous for children due to the severity of the complications. The time elapsed since ingestion is crucial to the degree of damage. The aim of this work is the description of a rare case of chronic permanence of intragastrical lithium battery in a poorly symptomatic 9-year-old male child who swallowed watch batteries, requiring laparotomy performed seven months after the ingestion. In the present case, the duodenal duplication cyst caused a delay in the gastric emptying due to a duodenal sub occlusion, which made diagnosis difficult because of the presence of food residues and also made impossible the identification of the foreign body. However, the food residues may have blocked the direct contact of the batteries with the gastric mucosa, preventing its serious injury.

Foreign Body Ingestion in Child: Impaction of Lithium Battery in Gastrointestinal Tract for An Extended Periodof Time