• Pediatr. Surg. Int. · Jul 1999

    Case Reports

    Button battery ingestion: a solution to a management dilemma.

    • S Namasivayam.
    • Department of Paediatric Surgery, The Childs Trust Hospital, Chennai 600 034, India.
    • Pediatr. Surg. Int. 1999 Jul 1; 15 (5-6): 383-4.

    AbstractThere is a dilemma in the management of ingested intact button batteries in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract distal to the oesophagus: whether to do an emergency laparotomy or to adopt a wait-and-watch policy. In this case report an effective, safe, and quick method of GI lavage was used and a button battery was expelled successfully from the stomach without resorting to laparotomy or endoscopy.

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