• Surgery today · Jan 2007

    Case Reports

    Perforation of Meckel's diverticulum by a button battery: report of a case.

    • Ayşe Karaman, Ibrahim Karaman, Derya Erdoğan, Yusuf Hakan Cavuşoğlu, Mustafa Kemal Aslan, Onursal Varlikli, and Ozden Cakmak.
    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
    • Surg. Today. 2007 Jan 1; 37 (12): 1115-6.

    AbstractA perforation of Meckel's diverticulum (MD) by foreign bodies is an extremely rare cause of acute abdomen in children. We herein present a rare case of perforation of Meckel's diverticulum in a child after swallowing an alkaline button battery that contained lithium.

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