Identifying a Disc-shaped Foreign Body

A four-year-old girl presented to the emergency department vomiting after a foreign body ingestion. An anteroposterior plain radiograph demonstrated a disc-shaped foreign body. Ordinarily, a plain radiograph cannot conclusively identify an object as a coin rather than a button battery that requires...

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Autores principales: Lee, Michael, George, Michael, Dorney, Kate E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061984
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.1.41829
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description A four-year-old girl presented to the emergency department vomiting after a foreign body ingestion. An anteroposterior plain radiograph demonstrated a disc-shaped foreign body. Ordinarily, a plain radiograph cannot conclusively identify an object as a coin rather than a button battery that requires emergent removal. However, this high-voltage radiograph, windowed to increase contrast, showed the visible face of George Washington to confirm the diagnosis of an ingested quarter.
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spelling pubmed-64972022019-05-06 Identifying a Disc-shaped Foreign Body Lee, Michael George, Michael Dorney, Kate E. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine A four-year-old girl presented to the emergency department vomiting after a foreign body ingestion. An anteroposterior plain radiograph demonstrated a disc-shaped foreign body. Ordinarily, a plain radiograph cannot conclusively identify an object as a coin rather than a button battery that requires emergent removal. However, this high-voltage radiograph, windowed to increase contrast, showed the visible face of George Washington to confirm the diagnosis of an ingested quarter. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6497202/ /pubmed/31061984 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.1.41829 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Lee et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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