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Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion
A 14-month-old girl initially presented to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department following a choking episode and subsequent vomiting. The child left the department before being seen but re-presented the following morning with stridor, drooling, and increased work of breathing. A chest and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35812605 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25721 |
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author | Banhidy, Norbert F Jamshaid, Shiraz Ghedia, Reshma Orban, Nara |
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description | A 14-month-old girl initially presented to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department following a choking episode and subsequent vomiting. The child left the department before being seen but re-presented the following morning with stridor, drooling, and increased work of breathing. A chest and lateral neck soft tissue X-ray performed in the A&E department revealed an ingested button battery in the oesophagus. Emergency oesophagoscopy was performed and a 22 mm button battery was removed from the oesophagus at the level of the cricopharyngeus muscle, with no immediate complications. Following extubation, the patient was initially well but later required a prolonged hospital stay due to recurrent episodes of stridor, voice changes and aspiration pneumonia. Follow-up microlaryngoscopy and laryngeal electromyography (EMG) diagnosed bilateral vocal cord palsy and cricoarytenoid fibrosis. This case highlights the need for increased public awareness, urgent diagnosis and standardised management of battery ingestion, and discusses the potential for the development of serious latent complications. |
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spelling | pubmed-92620872022-07-09 Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion Banhidy, Norbert F Jamshaid, Shiraz Ghedia, Reshma Orban, Nara Cureus Otolaryngology A 14-month-old girl initially presented to the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department following a choking episode and subsequent vomiting. The child left the department before being seen but re-presented the following morning with stridor, drooling, and increased work of breathing. A chest and lateral neck soft tissue X-ray performed in the A&E department revealed an ingested button battery in the oesophagus. Emergency oesophagoscopy was performed and a 22 mm button battery was removed from the oesophagus at the level of the cricopharyngeus muscle, with no immediate complications. Following extubation, the patient was initially well but later required a prolonged hospital stay due to recurrent episodes of stridor, voice changes and aspiration pneumonia. Follow-up microlaryngoscopy and laryngeal electromyography (EMG) diagnosed bilateral vocal cord palsy and cricoarytenoid fibrosis. This case highlights the need for increased public awareness, urgent diagnosis and standardised management of battery ingestion, and discusses the potential for the development of serious latent complications. Cureus 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9262087/ /pubmed/35812605 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25721 Text en Copyright © 2022, Banhidy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Otolaryngology Banhidy, Norbert F Jamshaid, Shiraz Ghedia, Reshma Orban, Nara Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title | Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title_full | Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title_fullStr | Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title_full_unstemmed | Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title_short | Bilateral Vocal Cord Fibrosis: A Delayed Complication of Button Battery Ingestion |
title_sort | bilateral vocal cord fibrosis: a delayed complication of button battery ingestion |
topic | Otolaryngology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35812605 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25721 |
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