Pediatric surgery international
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Pediatr. Surg. Int. · Jul 1999
Case ReportsEnlargement and maturation in benign cystic ovarian teratoma.
This is a report of a 13(1/2) year old girl with bilateral benign cystic ovarian teratomas (BCOT). The clinical presentation was with an abdominal mass and an abdominal X-ray film confirmed the mass which contained teeth. Previous abdominal X-ray at 3 and 10 years of age had not shown any abnormality. The clinical features and the radiological findings indicated that the BCOT had enlarged and matured during the period of follow-up.
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Pediatr. Surg. Int. · Jul 1999
Case ReportsButton battery ingestion: a solution to a management dilemma.
There 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.