Double button battery ingestion - The "macaroon" sign

• Main Authors: Emma Littlehales (Author), Eric Levi (Author), Nikki Mills (Author), Russell Metcalfe (Author), James Hamill (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Button (Disc) battery impaction in the esophagus is a time critical presentation with significant associated morbidity and mortality. We present the case of a 15-month old boy with an unwitnessed foreign body ingestion, and who was subsequently found to have two ingested lithium button batteries, wh...