Severe esophageal damage due to button battery ingestion: Can it be prevented?

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 496-501

  Yardeni, D ^a,b   Yardeni, H ^c   Coran, A G ^b   Golladay, E S ^b  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Button battery; Esophageal burn

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BURN; ESOPHAGUS FOREIGN BODY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHILD; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 4544370245     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-004-1223-6     Document Type: Article

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