Use of an insulated tip knife in the management of a common foreign body in a child

• Main Authors: Sanjay Rajput (Author), Pratin Bhatt (Author), Vatsal Bachkaniwala (Author), Chaiti Gandhi (Author), Rushi Pipavat (Author), Varun Tadkalkar (Author), Ravi Bokarvadia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A 2-year-old child presented with button battery (BB) ingestion that had taken place 5 months previously. The BB was impacted within the post-cricoid esophageal wall without an obvious perforation or communication with the trachea. In view of the high surgical risk, we attempted to remove the BB end...