Etiket: esophagus
Bite, swallow… and the battery burns a hole in the esophagus
About five years ago, a child of one and a half years old was brought in because she was found in a pool of blood. She was taken to the…
“It looked like money in her esophagus, but she was in intensive care for three weeks.” 7 times more incidents involving button batteries | Inland
Elissa (2.5) spent three weeks in intensive care at UZ Gent. A button battery had burned black holes in her esophagus and windpipe. It was edge. Pediatric gastroenterologists see such…