Citation

Namasivayam S. Pediatr. Surg. Int. 1999; 15(5-6): 383-384.

Affiliation

Department of Paediatric Surgery, The Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai 600 034, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10415292

Abstract

There is a dilemma in the management of ingested intact button batteries in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract distal to the oesophagus: whether to do an emergency laparotomy or to adopt a wait-and-watch policy. In this case report an effective, safe, and quick method of GI lavage was used and a button battery was expelled successfully from the stomach without resorting to laparotomy or endoscopy.

Language: en