Cardiac arrest in child caused by button battery in the oesophagus and complicated by aorto-oesophageal fistula;Hjertestop hos barn som følge af knapbatteri i øsofagus kompliceret med aorto-øsofageal fistel

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 171, Issue 43, 2009, Pages

  Mortensen, Anette ^a   Hansen, Nikolaj Friis ^a   Schiødt, Ole Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FATALITY; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFANT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA;

AORTA, THORACIC; AUTOPSY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFANT; LITHIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350707651     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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