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CUTANEOUS BUTTON BATTERY INJURY: A NEW PAEDIATRIC HAZARD
Author(s) -
Lewandowski R. A.,
Leditschke J. F.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1991.tb00283.x
Subject(s) - medicine , battery (electricity) , fire hazard , hazard , medical emergency , power (physics) , environmental protection , physics , environmental science , chemistry , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
Button or disc batteries have become increasingly popular as the energy source for electronic devices such as cameras, calculators. computers, watches, hearing aids and children's toys. Button battery bums to the gastrointestinal tract, ear and nose have been reported in children from many centres. Cutaneous injury from these sources has not been similarly reported. We believe our case represents the first, reported to date, to have suffered this injury and highlights this further potential hazard of the small, benign‐looking button batteries.