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battery
Adverse effects:
- battery-related injury
- 75% from ingestion
- children under 5 years
- button battery most frequently implicated
Radiology:
- button batteries can be mistaken for a coin, ECG electrode or other external object on chest X-ray
- disk-shaped objects should be examined carefully for diameter & a double rim
General
device (medical device)
References
- Sharpe SJ et al
Pediatric Battery-Related Emergency Department Visits in the
United States, 1990-2009
Pediatrics, May 14, 2012
PMID: 22585763
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/05/09/peds.2011-0012.abstract