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- Title
SEVERE COMPLICATIONS OF A DISK BATTERY INGESTION (CASE REPORT).
- Authors
Diaconescu, Smaranda; Gimiga, Nicoleta; Olaru, Claudia; Straticiuc-Ciongradi, Iulia; Aprodu, S. G.; Ciubara, Anamaria; Burlea, Marin; Lupu, Valeriu V.
- Abstract
Certain categories of foreign bodys ingestion in children can cause dangerous and severe complications leading to increased morbidity rates among them. We report a case of disk battery ingestion in a 2 year old girl, with impaction in the upper cervical esophagus, extracted in otolaryngology service but complicated afterwards with tracheo-oesophageal fistula and aspiration pneumonia and by long-term effect with high esophageal stenosis that required endoscopic dilatation.
- Subjects
INGESTION disorders in children; FOREIGN bodies; SURGICAL complications; ESOPHAGEAL abnormalities; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; ASPIRATION pneumonia; ESOPHAGEAL stenosis
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Rheumatology / Revista Romana de Reumatologie, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 2, p161
- ISSN
1843-0791
- Publication type
Article