Gastrointestinal endoscopy
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Gastrointest. Endosc.
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Gastrointest. Endosc. · Aug 2020
Multicenter StudyGastric injury secondary to button battery ingestions: a retrospective multicenter review.
Removal of gastric button batteries (BBs) remains controversial. Our aim was to better define the spectrum of injury and to characterize clinical factors associated with injury from retained gastric BBs. ⋯ In this study, swallowed BBs posed a risk of damage to the stomach, including a single case of impaction and perforation of the gastric wall. Clinicians may want to consider retrieval within 12 hours of ingestion of gastric BBs. Larger prospective studies to assess risk of injury are needed.