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Button battery ingestion: A serious pitfall of diagnosis of ingested foreign bodies in children from resource-limited settings – A case report

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Button battery ingestion and impaction in the oesophagus can result in severe morbidity and even fatality if not diagnosed and managed urgently. Delayed or missed diagnosis due to the sometimes-vague symptomatology and limited investigations in resource-limited settings...

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Autores principales: Kipiki, Peter Ernest, Chussi, Desderius, Shija, Peter, Kimwaga, Francis, Sadiq, Adnan, Mlay, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10415719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37536099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2023.108593