Button battery ingestion in children: An emerging hazard
- Mayank Jain
- Chandrashekhar Waghmare
- Sagar Adkar
- Shohini Sircar
- Ajay K Jain
Publication date
January 2013
DOI Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications ISSN
0976-5042 Journal
issn:0976-5050 Citation count (estimate)
1Abstract
Button battery ingestion is an emerging hazard. In this retrospective study, we report six cases of lithium button battery ingestion in pediatric age group (mean age 2.8 years). Three button batteries were removed from stomach and three from esophagus. Esophageal site was associated with significant local injury, and one button battery was impacted in the esophagus, requiring rigid esophagoscopy for removal. Small battery size, used batteries, and early removal (<12 h after ingestion) were associated with lesser mucosal injury. No long-term complications were noted. Our study emphasizes that early diagnosis and urgent removal of ingested button battery are the only measures which prevent complications
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