Button Battery Ingestion-
Case Report and Review
PD01-PD02
Correspondence
Dr. SS Kalyanshettar,
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, BLDE University’s Sri BM Patil medical college & Research centre Bijapur-586101, India.
Phone: 9449661940, E-mail: ssk_dr@yahoo.co.in
Over the last few years there is a rise in use of button batteries in various toys and other electronic gadgets. Easy availability and small size of these batteries pose a significant risk of ingestion in small children. Button battery ingestion can lead to serious health hazards very rapidly. A case of button battery ingestion is presented in this paper.